Baseness Quote by Dorothy L. Sayers Download Open image “No, no, there must be a limit to the baseness even of publishers.” — Dorothy L. Sayers ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Baseness Limits Publishers
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But if I worried too much about publishers' expectations, I'd probably paralyze myself and not be able to write anything. — David Baldacci Copy Share Image
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“The really essential factors of success in any undertaking are money and opportunity, and as a rule, the man who can make the first… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
The trouble is. . .that everybody sneers at restrictions and demands freedom, till something annoying happens; then they demand angrily what has become of… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“ Peter! Were you looking for a horse-shoe?" "No; I was expecting the horse, but the shoe is a piece of pure, gorgeous luck."… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
But it is the mark of all movements, however well-intentioned, that their pioneers tend, by much lashing of themselves into excitement, to lose sight… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
We may argue eloquently that 'Honesty is the best Policy' - unfortunately, the moment honesty is adopted for the sake of policy it mysteriously… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again. — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“By teaching them all to read, we have left them at the mercy of the printed word. By the invention of the film and… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Perhaps [the critics are right and] the drama is played out now and Jesus is safely dead and buried. Perhaps. It is ironical and… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
... at no point have I yet found artistic truth and theological truth at variance. — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
I have never yet heard any middle-aged man or woman who worked with his or her brains express any regret for the passing of… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“That was the second time within five minutes that he had warned her off his private ground. His mood had changed since the early… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
O fools, awake! The rites ye sacred hold Are but a cheat contrived by men of old Who lusted after wealth and gained their… — Al-Maʿarri Copy Share Image
There are only two great currents in the history of mankind: the baseness which makes conservatives and the envy which makes revolutionaries. — Edmond de Goncourt Copy Share Image
Nothing is more repugnant to me than brotherly feelings grounded in the common baseness people see in one another. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I once did hold it, as our statists do, A baseness to write fair, and labour'd much How to forget that learning; but, sir,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Those who profess contempt for men, and put them on a level with beasts, yet wish to be admired and believed by men, and… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
It (the heart) is supposed in popular language, to be the seat sometimes, of courage, sometimes of affection, sometimes of honesty, or baseness. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
How many a father have I seen, A sober man, among his boys, Whose youth was full of foolish noise. — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
The motions of men must be such as suggest their dignity or their baseness. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
There is no more evil thing in this world than race prejudice, none at all. [...] It justifies and holds together more baseness, cruelty,… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
When the scale of sensuality bears down that of reason, the baseness of our nature conducts us to most preposterous conclusions. — Roger Chamberlain Copy Share Image
Advertizing, television and film all wield mighty powers to visually seduce us, while much fine art leaves us indifferent, confused or, at worst, repulsed.… — John Walford Copy Share Image
![“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 the bond uniting all the Oxford people in the last resort.” quote by Dorothy L. Sayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c74/dorothy-l-sayers-738_academia_see-that-the-mind-is-honest-first-the-re_16293.jpg)
![“Perhaps [the critics are right and] the drama is played out now and Jesus is safely dead and buried. Perhaps. It is ironical and entertaining to consider that at least once in the world's history those words might have been said with complete conviction, and that was on the eve of the Resurrection.” quote by Dorothy L. Sayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/467/dorothy-l-sayers-738_buried_perhaps-the-critics-are-right-and-the-dr_43252.jpg)
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