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Had their physical attractions proved insufficient because she had unconsciously asked more from them than they were able to give? — Josephine Tey

Weak people can be very stubborn. — Josephine Tey

The road will be one long, I'm sure at that. So far the real friends are few, but few more challanges and few of them will gone also, won't they? — Deyth Banger

Lack of education is an extraordinary handicap when one is being offensive. — Josephine Tey

Lack of education," old Mrs. Sharpe said thoughtfully, "is an extraordinary handicap when one is being offensive. They had no resources at all. — Josephine Tey

If Richard had not made friends he had certainly influenced people. — Josephine Tey

Most people's first books are their best anyways. It's the one they wanted most to write. — Josephine Tey

Truth isn't in accounts but in account-books. — Josephine Tey

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

But it was never possible to forget that Searle was in a room. Why? she kept asking herself. Or rather, why not? — Josephine Tey

It was pleasant to talk shop again; to use that elliptical, allusive speech that one uses only with another of one's trade. — Josephine Tey

Nothing great ever came out of common sense. — Josephine Tey

You can't have a tin can tied to your tail and go through life pretending it isn't there. — Josephine Tey

She was afraid of what she called the young man's "personableness." She distrusted it for itself, and hated it as a potential threat to her house. — Josephine Tey

It is not possible to love and be wise. — Josephine Tey

Fasting was good for the imagination but bad for logic. — Josephine Tey

I have a palate, Williams. A precious possession. And I have no intention of prostituting it to pickles. — Josephine Tey

The light died on the window-sill as the last survivor of a charge dies on the enemy parapet, murdered but glorious. — Josephine Tey

The more windows on the world a policeman has the better he is likely to be at his job, — Josephine Tey

Riches ... don't consist in having things, but in not having to do something you don't want to do ... Riches is being able to thumb your nose. — Josephine Tey

There is a limit to one's capacity for rows, you know. There comes a time when you're only too ready to sacrifice something for a quiet life. — Josephine Tey

But no, Potticary, poor fool, brushed his boots for love of it. He probably had a slave mentality; but had never read enough for it to worry him. — Josephine Tey

Someone had said that if you thought about the unthinkable long enough it became quite reasonable. — Josephine Tey

Truth is often terribly thin, don't you think? — Josephine Tey

He is much too personable to be wholesome. — Josephine Tey

What had he ever wanted that he could not buy? And if that wasn't riches he didn't know what was. — Josephine Tey

Nothing puts things in perspective as quickly as a mountain. — Josephine Tey

One would expect boredom to be a great yawning emotion, but it isn't, of course. It's a small niggling thing. — Josephine Tey

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

I expect this is what death is like when you meet it. Sort of wildly unfair but inevitable. — Josephine Tey

A man may own a ship, but unless he is captain of a crew he goes where the ship goes. — Josephine Tey

Before night,' as Nanny used to say of too exuberant children. — Josephine Tey

Horse sense is the instinct that keeps horses from betting on men. — Josephine Tey

It would do her good to have some demons to fight, to be swung out in space and held over some bottomless pit now and then. — Josephine Tey

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

In hospitals there is no time off for good behavior. — Josephine Tey

A thousand people drowned in floods in China are news: a solitary child drowned in a pond is tragedy. — Josephine Tey

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

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