63 Quotes by Josephine Tey

If you think about the unthinkable long enough it becomes quite reasonable.

It is not possible to love and be wise.

Nothing in this world came out of satisfaction. Except the human race.

Most people’s first books are their best anyways. It’s the one they wanted most to write.

There were people whose only interest in life was writing letters. To the newspapers, to authors, to strangers, to City Councils, to the police. It did not much matter to whom; the satisfaction of writing seemed to be all.

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.

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 in a paper, the sale of a house, the price of a ring.

Nothing puts things in perspective as quickly as a mountain.