The opportunity to lecture had restored my good humor.
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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a church ought to express the joy of religion as well as its majesty.
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I’ve been reading ghost stories ever since I could read. I’m immensely curious about ghosts and UFOs and all that stuff, but I’m a very hard-headed person.
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there is nothing like a garden to rest the soul.
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I can do a book in three months if I spend all day, seven days a week at it and, in fact, I work better that way.
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I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to – mostly the latter.
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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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Spring is always cruel, with its false promise of resurrection.
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The trouble with unknown enemies is that they are so difficult to identify.
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Children, I feel, are as much entitled to privacy as human beings.
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Sekhmet crawled onto Ramses’s lap and began to purr. ‘The creature oozes like a furry slug,’ said Ramses, eyeing it without favor.
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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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No woman really wants a man to carry her off; she only wants him to want to do it.
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People who relate what they believe to be new and startling information like to have such information received with exclamations of astonishment and admiration.
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The combination of physical strength and moral sincerity combined with tenderness of heart is exactly what is wanted in a husband.–Ameila Peabody
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If you take a man by surprise, and behave with sufficient arrogance, he will generally do what you ask. -Emerson
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