“Very dangerous things, theories.” — 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.

If it were not for the war, this war would suit me down to the ground.

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.