"Facts are like cows. If you look them in the face long enough, they generally run away."
- Dorothy L. Sayers
"If it ever occurs to people to value the honour of the mind equally with the honour of the body, we shall get a social revolution of a quite unparalleled sort."
"The only ethical principle which has made science possible is that the truth shall be told all the time. If we do not penalize false statements made in error, we open up the way for false statements b..."
"To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life., 8 September 1935)"
"See that the mind is honest, first; the rest may follow or not as God wills. [That] the fundamental treason to the mind ... is the one fundamental treason which the scholar's mind must not allow is th..."
"Listen, Harriet. I do unterstand. I know you don't want either to give or to take ... You don't want ever again to have to depend for happiness on another person.""That's true. That's the truest thing..."
"Here be dragons to be slain, here be rich rewards to gain;If we perish in the seeking, why, how small a thing is death!"
"The planet's tyrant, dotard Death, had held his gray mirror before them for a moment and shown them the image of things to come."
"How can I find the words? Poets have taken them all and left me with nothing to say or do""Except to teach me for the first time what they meant."
"A man once asked me ... how I managed in my books to write such natural conversation between men when they were by themselves. Was I, by any chance, a member of a large, mixed family with a lot of mal..."