The worst of pushing horrible things down into one's subconscious is that when they pop up again they are as fresh as if they had been in a refrigerator. You haven't allowed time to get at them to-to mould them over a little.
Weak people can be very stubborn. - Josephine Tey
Weak people can be very stubborn.
- Josephine Tey
If you think about the unthinkable long enough it becomes quite reasonable. - Josephine Tey
If you think about the unthinkable long enough it becomes quite reasonable.
Lack of education is an extraordinary handicap when one is being offensive. - Josephine Tey
Lack of education is an extraordinary handicap when one is being offensive.
A man may own a ship, but unless he is captain of a crew he goes where the ship goes. - Josephine Tey
A man may own a ship, but unless he is captain of a crew he goes where the ship goes.
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
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.
Horse sense is the instinct that keeps horses from betting on men. - Josephine Tey
Horse sense is the instinct that keeps horses from betting on men.
It is not possible to love and be wise. - Josephine Tey
It is not possible to love and be wise.
Nothing great ever came out of common sense. - Josephine Tey
Nothing great ever came out of common sense.
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 sal… - Josephine Tey
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 sal…
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