Husbands do not care to be contradicted. Indeed, I do not know anyone who does.
BARBARA MERTZWhen emotion supersedes reason … gullibility must follow.
More Barbara Mertz Quotes
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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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Reputations are shaped not by facts but by prejudices.
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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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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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But the dust! And the clutter! My housewifely and scholarly instincts were equally offended.
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I do, however, think it would be difficult to write books I don’t like to read.
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Conventional history completely ignores half the human race.
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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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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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It’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.
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Money was the manure of politics.
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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?
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I had refused Emerson’s well-meant offers of assistance, knowing his efforts would be confined to moving the furniture to the wrong places and demanding how much longer the process would take.
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A lady cannot be blamed if a master criminal takes a fancy to her.
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A man asking for help ought to at least give directions.
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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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It was hate at first sight, clean, pure and strong as grain alcohol.
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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.)
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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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His masculinity was only too apparent
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Nefret had always had an uncanny ability to read his thoughts. ‘Did she cry?’ she asked sweetly. ‘And then you kissed her? You shouldn’t have done that. I’m sure you meant well, but kissing someone out of pity is always a mistake.
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Love has a very dulling effect on the brain
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Giving other people advice is one of the most irritating and useless activities known to man.
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The only way to do it is to do it: by writing, writing, writing.
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In the silence I heard Bastet, who had retreated under the bed, carrying on a mumbling, profane monologue. (If you ask how I knew it was profane, I presume you have never owned a cat.)
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