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

--

Source : Josephine Tey (2013). “The Daughter of Time”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

Josephine Tey

#Yawning Quotes #Boredom Quotes #Emotion Quotes

“Any departure from fact is the first step on a slippery slope toward unbelievability.”
“I'm very proud of being a hack. It's why I've lived as long as I have, I think.”
“Too many companies these days can't tell the difference between good profits and bad.... By now you're probably wondering how in heaven's name profit, that holy grail of the business enterprise, can ever be bad. Short of outright fraud, isn't one dollar of earnings as good as another? Certainly, accountants can't tell the difference between good and bad profits. They all look the same on an income statement. While bad profits don't show up on the books, they are easy to recognize. They're profits earned at the expense of customer relationships.”
“The war made possible for us the solution of a whole series of problems that could never have been solved in normal times.”
“Women are the holders of all knowledge, everything a man knows he stole from a woman.”
“Long Gone is the type of book that should come with a warning. Itâ€™s a compulsively readable, highly addictive story. The ending will leave you breathless.”
“Today it is infinitely easier to kill one million people than to control one million people.”
“Hippies? Why, I'm the original.”

You may also like:

Alfred Hitchcock
Film director
Dorothy L. Sayers
Writer
Ellis Peters
Author
Leon Uris
Novelist
Margery Allingham
Writer
Ngaio Marsh
Writer
P. D. James
Member of the House of Lords
Patricia Wentworth
Fiction writer
Ruth Rendell
Baroness Rendell of Babergh