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Truth

Dorothy L. Sayers | truth

The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.

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Home

Dorothy L. Sayers | home

I love you – I am at rest with you – I have come home.

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experience

Dorothy L. Sayers | experience

None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can’t teach people that – they have to learn by experience.

Quote from Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night

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.

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The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers. Vol. 1

Quote from 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 descend in work or life., 8 September 1935)

Quote from Dorothy L. Sayers, Have His Carcase

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 you ever said.””All right. I can respect that. Only you’ve got to play the game. Don’t force an emotional situation and then blame me for it.””But I don’t want any situation. I want to be left in peace.

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