Dorothy Salisbury Davis Quotes
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We reveal more of ourselves in the lies we tell than we do when we try to tell the truth.
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Don't sell your soul to buy peanuts for the monkeys.
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There’s no snobbery like that of the poor toward one another.
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I don't approve the informality in the world today, Mr. James. It's made strangers of us all.
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History's like a story in a way: it depends on who's telling it.
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The law is above the law, you know.
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It's a great wonder to me, the Irish attachment to our history. What is it but a series of lamentations?
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Beware of feelings, Father. They are the biggest liars in us. They make truth what we want it to be.
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Very often adverse criticism goes to craft, and that sounds an alarm to which attention should be paid.
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Flattery makes fools of the best of us.
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No one who likes a song lacks congeniality.
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Dorothy Salisbury Davis
- Born: April 25, 1916
- Died: August 3, 2014
- Occupation: Fiction writer
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