Quotes by Dorothy L. Sayers, The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers. Vol. 1, 1899-1936: The Making of a Detective Novelist

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To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can desc — Dorothy L. Sayers, The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers. Vol. 1, 1899-1936: The Making of a Detective Novelist
See that the mind is honest, first; the rest may follow or not as God wills. [That] the fundamental treason to the mind — Dorothy L. Sayers, The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers. Vol. 1, 1899-1936: The Making of a Detective Novelist
[O]ne can scarcely be frightened off writing what one wants to write for fear an obscure reviewer should patronise one o — Dorothy L. Sayers, The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers. Vol. 1, 1899-1936: The Making of a Detective Novelist
The one thing which seems to me quite impossible is to take into consideration the kind of book one is expected to write — Dorothy L. Sayers, The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers. Vol. 1, 1899-1936: The Making of a Detective Novelist
To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can desc — Dorothy L. Sayers, The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers. Vol. 1, 1899-1936: The Making of a Detective Novelist
[W]hen I see men callously and cheerfully denying women the full use of their bodies, while insisting with sobs and howl — Dorothy L. Sayers, The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers. Vol. 1, 1899-1936: The Making of a Detective Novelist
[T]he more clamour we make about 'the women's point of view', the more we rub it into people that the women's point of v — Dorothy L. Sayers, The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers. Vol. 1, 1899-1936: The Making of a Detective Novelist
[N]othing about a book is so unmistakable and so irreplaceable as the stamp of the cultured mind. I don't care what the — Dorothy L. Sayers, The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers. Vol. 1, 1899-1936: The Making of a Detective Novelist
[On marriage and permanent attach — Dorothy L. Sayers, The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers. Vol. 1, 1899-1936: The Making of a Detective Novelist
People who prefer to believe the worst of others will breed war and religious persecutions while the world lasts. — Dorothy L. Sayers, The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers. Vol. 1, 1899-1936: The Making of a Detective Novelist