If someone lies down and invites you to trample upon him, you are a remarkable individual if you decline the invitation.
BARBARA MERTZA lady cannot be blamed if a master criminal takes a fancy to her.
More Barbara Mertz Quotes
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Another dead body. Every year it is the same. Every year, another dead body.
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Sometimes the characters develop almost without your knowing it. You find them doing things you hadn’t planned on, and then I have to go back to page 42 and fix things. I’m not recommending it as a way to write. It’s very sloppy, but it works for me.
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When emotion supersedes reason … gullibility must follow.
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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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Love has a very dulling effect on the brain
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Conventional history completely ignores half the human race.
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I would not be at all surprised to find that it was for gold that Cain committed the first murder. (It happened a very long time ago, and Holy Writ, though no doubt divinely inspired, is a trifle careless about details. God is not a historian).
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Many persons lead lives of crushing boredom.
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I would never have supposed that inexperienced girl was capable of such cold-blooded, calculating manipulation!
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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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Is is difficult to be angry with a gentleman who pays you compliments, even impertinent compliments. Especially impertinent compliments.
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Superstition has its practical uses.
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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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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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You are softening toward the young rascal because he is ill, and because he says he likes cats.” “It is an engaging quality, Emerson.” “That depends,” said Emerson darkly, “on how he likes them.
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