If you take a man by surprise, and behave with sufficient arrogance, he will generally do what you ask. -Emerson
BARBARA MERTZIf you take a man by surprise, and behave with sufficient arrogance, he will generally do what you ask. -Emerson
BARBARA MERTZLoving 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 MERTZThe opportunity to lecture had restored my good humor.
BARBARA MERTZI have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny.
BARBARA MERTZThere 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.
BARBARA MERTZCats 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 MERTZI would never have supposed that inexperienced girl was capable of such cold-blooded, calculating manipulation!
BARBARA MERTZWhen emotion supersedes reason … gullibility must follow.
BARBARA MERTZTo argue without knowledge is like trying to weave without thread.
BARBARA MERTZthere is nothing like a garden to rest the soul.
BARBARA MERTZIt’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.
BARBARA MERTZPeople who relate what they believe to be new and startling information like to have such information received with exclamations of astonishment and admiration.
BARBARA MERTZ..he continues to cling to the forlorn hope that I will turn into one of those swooning females…and fling myself squeeling at him whenever anything happens. Like all men, he clings to his illusions.
BARBARA MERTZThe approval of a cat cannot but flatter the recipient.
BARBARA MERTZa church ought to express the joy of religion as well as its majesty.
BARBARA MERTZNo woman really wants a man to carry her off; she only wants him to want to do it.
BARBARA MERTZ