"If it were not for the war, this war would suit me down to the ground." — Dorothy L. Sayers

Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in age.

Those who make some other person their job... are dangerous.

Very dangerous things, theories.

The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity; so have some little frocks; but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine.