Love has a very dulling effect on the brain
BARBARA MERTZI 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)
More Barbara Mertz Quotes
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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 is nothing sadder than the cheerful letters of the dead, expressing hopes that were never fulfilled, ambitions that were never achieved, dreams cut off before they could come to fruition.
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Superstition has its practical uses.
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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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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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Husbands do not care to be contradicted. Indeed, I do not know anyone who does.
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kissing someone out of pity is always a mistake.
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When one is striding bravely into the future one cannot watch one’s footing.
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The approval of a cat cannot but flatter the recipient.
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If someone lies down and invites you to trample upon him, you are a remarkable individual if you decline the invitation.
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When emotion supersedes reason … gullibility must follow.
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Emerson,’ I said, choosing my words with care, ‘it is a sheer drop from the cleft down to the base of the cliff. If you are bent on breaking your arm or your leg or your neck or all three, find a place closer to home so we won’t have to carry you such a distance.
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It may take us a little longer to reach the summit, but never fear, we will get there!
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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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Marriage, in my view, should be a balanced stalemate between equal adversaries.
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The trouble with unknown enemies is that they are so difficult to identify.
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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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Conventional history completely ignores half the human race.
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Your trousers are on fire. I would have told you, but you so dislike advice.
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It was hate at first sight, clean, pure and strong as grain alcohol.
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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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Children, I feel, are as much entitled to privacy as human beings.
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Many persons lead lives of crushing boredom.
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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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Dogs can be made to feel guilty about anything, including the sins of their owners. Cats refuse to take the blame for anything – including their own sins.
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