It is easier to counterfeit old age than youth.
BARBARA MERTZIt’s not unsporting to thrash a cowardly cad,’ said Simmons. ‘Everyone knows you don’t fight like a gentleman.’ ‘That might be called an oxymoron,’ Ramses said. ‘Oh–sorry. Bad form to use long words. Look it up when you get home.’ The poor devil didn’t know how to fight, like a gentleman or otherwise.
More Barbara Mertz Quotes
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I disapprove of matrimony as a matter of principle…. Why should any independent, intelligent female choose to subject herself to the whims and tyrannies of a husband? I assure you, I have yet to meet a man as sensible as myself! (Amelia Peabody)
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The only way to do it is to do it: by writing, writing, writing.
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Conventional history completely ignores half the human race.
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Getting an idea for a book is not the problem, but you need 300 ideas – an idea a page.
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There are too many people in the world as it is, but the supply of ancient manuscripts is severely limited.
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…Nefret said with a gusty sigh, ‘Well, that’s done it. We may as well join in, Ramses, family arguments are the favorite form of amusement here and this looks like being a loud one.
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That’s maturity-when you realize that you’ve finally arrived at a state of ignorance as profound as your parents.
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Ramses had always been fond of Helen, in his peculiar fashion, but if he had looked at me as he was looking at her, I would have sent for a constable.
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Your trousers are on fire. I would have told you, but you so dislike advice.
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Writing is like a bird-watcher watching for birds: the stories are there: you just have to train yourself to look for them.
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Cats always pick the laps of the people who don’t like them.
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Exaggeration is the cheapest form of humor.
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A lady cannot be blamed if a master criminal takes a fancy to her.
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I would not be at all surprised to find that it was for gold that Cain committed the first murder. (It happened a very long time ago, and Holy Writ, though no doubt divinely inspired, is a trifle careless about details. God is not a historian).
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I have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny.
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