Josephine Tey Quotes
- Lack of education is an extraordinary handicap when one is being offensive.
- A thousand people drowned in floods in China are news: a solitary child drowned in a pond is tragedy.
- One would expect boredom to be a great yawning emotion, but it isn't, of course. It's a small niggling thing.
- Truth isn’t in accounts but in account-books.
- He knew by heart every last minute crack on its surface. He had made maps of the ceiling and gone exploring on them; rivers, islands,…
- It's an odd thing but when you tell someone the true facts of a mythical tale they are indignant not with the teller but with…
- In hospitals there is no time off for good behavior.
- If you think about the unthinkable long enough it becomes quite reasonable.
- The trouble with you, dear, is that you think an angel of the Lord as a creature with wings, whereas he is probably a scruffy…
- The truth of anything at all doesn't lie in someone's account of it. It lies in all the small facts of the time. An advertisement…
- Most people's first books are their best anyways. It's the one they wanted most to write.