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.
BARBARA MERTZI 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.
More Barbara Mertz Quotes
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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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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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Your trousers are on fire. I would have told you, but you so dislike advice.
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there is nothing like a garden to rest the soul.
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Giving other people advice is one of the most irritating and useless activities known to man.
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Love has a very dulling effect on the brain
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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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His masculinity was only too apparent
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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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Money was the manure of politics.
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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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A man asking for help ought to at least give directions.
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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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a church ought to express the joy of religion as well as its majesty.
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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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