1.
Don't sell your soul to buy peanuts for the monkeys.
Dorothy Salisbury Davis
2.
There’s no snobbery like that of the poor toward one another.
Dorothy Salisbury Davis
3.
The law is above the law, you know.
Dorothy Salisbury Davis
4.
History's like a story in a way: it depends on who's telling it.
Dorothy Salisbury Davis
5.
I don't approve the informality in the world today, Mr. James. It's made strangers of us all.
Dorothy Salisbury Davis
6.
We reveal more of ourselves in the lies we tell than we do when we try to tell the truth.
Dorothy Salisbury Davis
7.
No one who likes a song lacks congeniality.
Dorothy Salisbury Davis
8.
Flattery makes fools of the best of us.
Dorothy Salisbury Davis
9.
Beware of feelings, Father. They are the biggest liars in us. They make truth what we want it to be.
Dorothy Salisbury Davis
10.
Very often adverse criticism goes to craft, and that sounds an alarm to which attention should be paid.
Dorothy Salisbury Davis
11.
It's a great wonder to me, the Irish attachment to our history. What is it but a series of lamentations?
Dorothy Salisbury Davis