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Josephine Tey Quotes

Josephine Tey was a pseudonym used by Elizabeth MacKintosh , a Scottish author best known for her mystery novels. She also wrote as Gordon Daviot, under which name she wrote plays, many with biblical or historical themes.

✵ 25. July 1896 – 13. February 1952

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The Franchise Affair
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Famous Josephine Tey Quotes

“One of the secrets of a successful life is to know how to be a little profitably crazy.”

Josephine Tey

Source: To Love and Be Wise

“The trouble with you, dear, is that you think an angel of the Lord as a creature with wings, whereas he is probably a scruffy little man with a bowler hat.”

Josephine Tey book The Franchise Affair

Source: The Franchise Affair

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