What'll Geoffrey do when you pull off your First, my child?" demanded Miss Haydock.
"Well, Eve -- it will be awkward if I do that. Poor lamb! I shall have to make him believe I only did it by looking fragile and pathetic at the viva.
Stichwörter: intelligence empowerment gender women feminism prejudice misogyny achievements academia stereotypes skills abilities double-standards clichés academic-degrees intellectual-success
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 by intention. And a false statement of fact, made deliberately, is the most serious crime a scientist can commit.
Dorothy L. SayersStichwörter: science truth honesty lies integrity values scholars academia treason falsification veracity
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.
Dorothy L. SayersStichwörter: truth integrity mind values body honour social-norms
You'd think (losing his job and degree for having made false claims as a researcher) would be a lesson to him," said Miss Hillyard. "It didn't pay, did it? Say he sacrificed his professional honour for the women and children we hear so much about -- but in the end it left him worse of."
But that," said Peter, "was only because he committed the extra sin of being found out.
Stichwörter: family integrity punishment values poverty sacrifice academia honor dishonesty falsification financial-distress
A marriage of two independent and equally irritable intelligences seems to me reckless to the point of insanity.
Dorothy L. SayersStichwörter: intelligence marriage independence matrimony irritability recklessness
There is something about wills which brings out the worst side of human nature. People who under ordinary circumstances are perfectly upright and amiable, go as curly as corkscrews and foam at the mouth, whenever they hear the words 'I devise and bequeath.
Dorothy L. SayersHeaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
Dorothy L. SayersStichwörter: poets
Experience has taught me," said Peter (...) "that no situation finds Bunter unprepared. That he should have procured The Times this morning by the simple expedient of asking the milkman to request the postmistress to telephone to Broxford and have it handed to the 'bus-conductor to be dropped at the post-office and brought up by the little girl who delivers the telegrams is a trifling example of his resourceful energy.
Dorothy L. SayersStichwörter: expediency resourcefulness
He remembered having said to his uncle (with a solemn dogmatism better befitting a much younger man): "Surely it is possible to love with the head as well as the heart." Mr. Delagardie had replied, somewhat drily: "No doubt; so long as you do not end by thinking with your entrails instead of your brain.
Dorothy L. SayersStichwörter: love wit rationality
My husband would do anything for me ...' It's degrading. No human being ought to have such power over another."
"It's a very real power, Harriet."
"Then ... we won't use it. If we disagree, we'll fight it out like gentlemen. We won't stand for matrimonial blackmail.
Stichwörter: equality fight devotion matrimony dignity married-life quarrel disagreements blackmail domestic-life
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