“ What had he ever wanted that he could not buy? And if that wasn't riches he didn't know what was. Josephine Tey
“ A man--Buck--wrote a vindication in the seventeenth-century, and Horace Walpole in the eighteenth, and someone named Markham in the nineteenth ... And who in the twentieth?No one that I know of.Then w… 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
“ Alan Grant: "There are... far too many words written. Millions and millions of them pouring from the presses every minute. It's a horrible thought." The Midget (his nurse): "You sound constipated. Josephine Tey
“ Grant had dealt too long with the human intelligence to accept as truth someone's report of someone's report of what that someone remembered to have seen or been told. Josephine Tey
“ The Sweat and the Furrow was Silas Weekley being earthly and spade-conscious all over seven hundred pages. The situation, to judge from the first paragraph, had not materially changed since Silas's la… 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
“ He knew by heart every last minute crack on its surface. He had made maps of the ceiling and gone exploring on them; rivers, islands, and continents. He had made guessing games of it and discovered hi… Josephine Tey
