Josephine Tey Quote
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 what's wrong with your doing it?But it wont' be the same, don't you see? It won't be a great discovery.He said it in capitals. A GREAT DISCOVERY.Grant smiled at him.Oh, come, you can't expect to pick GREAT DISCOVERIES off bushes. If you can't be a pioneer what's wrong with leading a crusade?A crusade?Certainly.Against what?Tonypandy.
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 what's wrong with your doing it?But it wont' be the same, don't you see? It won't be a great discovery.He said it in capitals. A GREAT DISCOVERY.Grant smiled at him.Oh, come, you can't expect to pick GREAT DISCOVERIES off bushes. If you can't be a pioneer what's wrong with leading a crusade?A crusade?Certainly.Against what?Tonypandy.
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About Josephine Tey
Elizabeth MacKintosh (25 July 1896 – 13 February 1952), known by the pen name Josephine Tey, was a Scottish author. Her 1951 novel The Daughter of Time, a detective work investigating the death of the Princes in the Tower, was chosen by the Crime Writers' Association in 1990 as the greatest crime novel of all time. Her first play Richard of Bordeaux, written under another pseudonym, Gordon Daviot, starred John Gielgud in its successful West End run.