Dorothy Salisbury Davis Professions : Fiction writer Born : April 25, 1916 Died : August 3, 2014 Browse All Authors Top 11 quotes by Dorothy Salisbury Davis History's like a story in a way: it depends on who's telling it. Dorothy Salisbury Davis depends stories way Don't sell your soul to buy peanuts for the monkeys. Dorothy Salisbury Davis peanuts monkeys soul We reveal more of ourselves in the lies we tell than we do when we try to tell the truth. Dorothy Salisbury Davis telling-the-truth trying lying There’s no snobbery like that of the poor toward one another. Dorothy Salisbury Davis snobbishness snobbery poor Very often adverse criticism goes to craft, and that sounds an alarm to which attention should be paid. Dorothy Salisbury Davis alarms criticism sound Beware of feelings, Father. They are the biggest liars in us. They make truth what we want it to be. Dorothy Salisbury Davis liars feelings father It's a great wonder to me, the Irish attachment to our history. What is it but a series of lamentations? Dorothy Salisbury Davis ireland attachment wonder I don't approve the informality in the world today, Mr. James. It's made strangers of us all. Dorothy Salisbury Davis stranger today world No one who likes a song lacks congeniality. Dorothy Salisbury Davis congeniality likes song Flattery makes fools of the best of us. Dorothy Salisbury Davis flattery fool The law is above the law, you know. Dorothy Salisbury Davis above-the-law law knows Similar Authors Brian Stableford fiction-writer Brian Lumley fiction-writer Brad Linaweaver fiction-writer Armin Joseph Deutsch fiction-writer Andrew Revkin fiction-writer Amy Plum fiction-writer All Authors