63 Quotes by Josephine Tey

It was shocking how little history remained with one after a good education.

After three days without one, the desire to read a newspaper vanished. And really, one was happier without.

He is much too personable to be wholesome.

If Richard had not made friends he had certainly influenced people.

Every schoolboy turned over the final page of Richard III with relief, because now at last the Wars of the Roses were over and they could get on to the Tudors, who were dull but easy to follow.

One of the secrets of a successful life is to know how to be a little profitably crazy.

There was no room in his life for Marta, and none in her life for him; but it was a pity, all the same.

There is a little phrase commonly used in police work that says, “in accordance with the evidence.” You say that over six times a day as a grace before and after meals, and perhaps it will keep your feet on the ground and stop you ending up thinking you’re Frederick the Great or a hedgehog or something.

The sorrows of humanity are no one’s sorrows, as newspaper readers long ago found out. A frisson of horror may go down one’s spine at wholesale destruction but one’s heart stays unmoved. A thousand people drowned in floods in China are news: a solitary child drowned in a pond is tragedy.