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 MERTZI sometimes wonder what it would be like to be the respected patriarch of an ordinary English family.” “Very boring, Emerson.
More Barbara Mertz Quotes
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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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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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stereotypes are awfully misleading. There are typical librarians, but not all librarians are typical.
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He hesitated for a moment. Then he said softly, “I love you, Mother.” He took my hand and kissed it, and folded my fingers round the stem of the rose. He had stripped it of its thorns.
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It was hate at first sight, clean, pure and strong as grain alcohol.
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His masculinity was only too apparent
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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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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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Reputations are shaped not by facts but by prejudices.
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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.
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I sometimes wonder what it would be like to be the respected patriarch of an ordinary English family.” “Very boring, Emerson.
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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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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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When one is striding bravely into the future one cannot watch one’s footing.
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Giving other people advice is one of the most irritating and useless activities known to man.
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Superstition has its practical uses.
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When emotion supersedes reason … gullibility must follow.
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There was no warning, not even a knock. The door flew open, and he forgot his present aches and pains in anticipation of what lay in store. The figure that stood in the door was not that of an enemy. It was worse. It was his mother.
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Exaggeration is the cheapest form of humor.
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When men start talking about ‘honor’, there is sure to be trouble ahead.
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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.
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Most men are reasonably useful in a crisis. The difficulty lies in convincing them that the situation has reached a critical point
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there is nothing like a garden to rest the soul.
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Your trousers are on fire. I would have told you, but you so dislike advice.
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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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A fondness for martyrdom, especially of the verbal variety, is common to the young.
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