I don’t think she realized how much she cared for him, or he for her, until the end. Hasn’t someone said a woman may be known by the men who love her enough to die for her? (If they haven’t, I claim the credit myself.)
BARBARA MERTZChildren, I feel, are as much entitled to privacy as human beings.
More Barbara Mertz Quotes
-
-
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).
BARBARA MERTZ -
The way to get on with a cat is to treat it as an equal – or even better, as the superior it knows itself to be.
BARBARA MERTZ -
Your trousers are on fire. I would have told you, but you so dislike advice.
BARBARA MERTZ -
Martyrdom is often the result of excessive gullibility.
BARBARA MERTZ -
Love has a very dulling effect on the brain
BARBARA MERTZ -
If someone lies down and invites you to trample upon him, you are a remarkable individual if you decline the invitation.
BARBARA MERTZ -
To argue without knowledge is like trying to weave without thread.
BARBARA MERTZ -
I sometimes wonder what it would be like to be the respected patriarch of an ordinary English family.” “Very boring, Emerson.
BARBARA MERTZ -
Another dead body. Every year it is the same. Every year, another dead body.
BARBARA MERTZ -
Conventional history completely ignores half the human race.
BARBARA MERTZ -
A lady cannot be blamed if a master criminal takes a fancy to her.
BARBARA MERTZ -
Getting an idea for a book is not the problem, but you need 300 ideas – an idea a page.
BARBARA MERTZ -
If all else fails, we will simply have to drug our attendants, overpower the guards, raise the oppressed peasants to arms, and take over the government.
BARBARA MERTZ -
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.
BARBARA MERTZ -
When emotion supersedes reason … gullibility must follow.
BARBARA MERTZ -
Giving other people advice is one of the most irritating and useless activities known to man.
BARBARA MERTZ -
Cats always pick the laps of the people who don’t like them.
BARBARA MERTZ -
It is much more sensible to be an optimist instead of a pessimist, for if one is doomed to disappointment, why experience it in advance?
BARBARA MERTZ -
If you take a man by surprise, and behave with sufficient arrogance, he will generally do what you ask. -Emerson
BARBARA MERTZ -
Money was the manure of politics.
BARBARA MERTZ -
Spring is always cruel, with its false promise of resurrection.
BARBARA MERTZ -
Cats always made up to the people who hated them the most. Depending on how you chose to look at it, it was a touching manifestation of trust, or a malicious pleasure in human discomfort.
BARBARA MERTZ -
Loving someone condemns you to a lifetime of fear. You become painfully conscious of how fragile people are – bundles of brittle bones and vulnerable flesh, breeding grounds for billions of deadly germs and horrible diseases.
BARBARA MERTZ -
Is is difficult to be angry with a gentleman who pays you compliments, even impertinent compliments. Especially impertinent compliments.
BARBARA MERTZ -
I never meant to marry. In my opinion, a woman born in the last half of the nineteenth century of the Christian era suffered from enough disadvantages without willfully embracing another.
BARBARA MERTZ -
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)
BARBARA MERTZ