Patricia Wentworth Quote

There are virtues which are very well in the abstract, but which, encountered in the flesh, can be a source of extreme irritation.


Miss Silver Comes to Stay (1948)


There are virtues which are very well in the abstract, but which, encountered in the flesh, can be a source of extreme irritation.

There are virtues which are very well in the abstract, but which, encountered in the flesh, can be a source of extreme irritation.

There are virtues which are very well in the abstract, but which, encountered in the flesh, can be a source of extreme irritation.

There are virtues which are very well in the abstract, but which, encountered in the flesh, can be a source of extreme irritation.