When men start talking about ‘honor’, there is sure to be trouble ahead.
BARBARA MERTZMany persons lead lives of crushing boredom.
More Barbara Mertz Quotes
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The approval of a cat cannot but flatter the recipient.
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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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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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I have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny.
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When emotion supersedes reason … gullibility must follow.
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there is nothing like a garden to rest the soul.
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Superstition has its practical uses.
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Martyrdom is often the result of excessive gullibility.
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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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Is is difficult to be angry with a gentleman who pays you compliments, even impertinent compliments. Especially impertinent compliments.
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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.
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A fondness for martyrdom, especially of the verbal variety, is common to the young.
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Many persons lead lives of crushing boredom.
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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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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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Your trousers are on fire. I would have told you, but you so dislike advice.
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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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Cats always pick the laps of the people who don’t like them.
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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 do not scruple to employ mendacity and a fictitious appearance of female incompetence when the occasion demands it.
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Money was the manure of politics.
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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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I do, however, think it would be difficult to write books I don’t like to read.
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I do hope you have some money. I’m getting tired of hitting people.
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The opportunity to lecture had restored my good humor.
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Since I am not as stupid as my children believe I am, I had immediately realized this might be a ruse, but I was not at all averse to a confrontation. In fact, I had been hoping for some such thing.
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