People Drowned Quotes by Josephine Tey

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Josephine Tey has 11 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• 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…
• It's an odd thing but when you tell someone the true facts of a mythical tale they are indignant not with the…
• 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…
• The truth of anything at all doesn't lie in someone's account of it. It lies in all the small facts of the…
• Most people's first books are their best anyways. It's the one they wanted most to write.

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