Dorothy Salisbury Davis famous quotes

03-28-2025

No one who likes a song lacks congeniality ...
-- Dorothy Salisbury Davis

#Song #Likes #Congeniality
I don't approve the informality in the world today, Mr. James. It's made strangers of us all.
-- Dorothy Salisbury Davis

#World #Today #Stranger
We reveal more of ourselves in the lies we tell than we do when we try to tell the truth.
-- Dorothy Salisbury Davis

#Lying #Trying #Telling The Truth
It's a great wonder to me, the Irish attachment to our history. What is it but a series of lamentations?
-- Dorothy Salisbury Davis

#Attachment #Wonder #Ireland
Flattery makes fools of the best of us.
-- Dorothy Salisbury Davis

#Fool #Flattery
Beware of feelings, Father. They are the biggest liars in us. They make truth what we want it to be.
-- Dorothy Salisbury Davis

#Father #Liars #Feelings
The law is above the law, you know.
-- Dorothy Salisbury Davis

#Law #Above The Law
History's like a story in a way: it depends on who's telling it.
-- Dorothy Salisbury Davis

#Stories #Way
Thereâ€™s no snobbery like that of the poor toward one another.
-- Dorothy Salisbury Davis

#Poor
Don't sell your soul to buy peanuts for the monkeys.
-- Dorothy Salisbury Davis

#Soul #Monkeys #Peanuts

You may also like:

Billie Letts
Novelist
Celia Fremlin
Writer
Charles Simmons
Novelist
Charlotte Armstrong
Author
Dorothy B. Hughes
Crime writer
Fredric Brown
Fiction writer
Helen Nielsen
Author
Margaret Millar
Writer
Patricia Wentworth
Fiction writer
Ray Bradbury
Writer
Sara Paretsky
Author
Stanley Ellin
Writer