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.)
BARBARA MERTZI am so tired of ruggedly handsome heroes. I don’t know too many ruggedly handsome people who are necessarily nice people. In fact, the beautiful people have a big handicap because they rely too much on their appearance and don’t bother to become interesting.
More Barbara Mertz Quotes
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A fondness for martyrdom, especially of the verbal variety, is common to the young.
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I have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny.
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Conventional history completely ignores half the human race.
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Husbands do not care to be contradicted. Indeed, I do not know anyone who does.
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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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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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His masculinity was only too apparent
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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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There are too many people in the world as it is, but the supply of ancient manuscripts is severely limited.
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The way to get on with a cat is to treat it as an equal – or even better, as the superior it knows itself to be.
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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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kissing someone out of pity is always a mistake.
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Marriage, in my view, should be a balanced stalemate between equal adversaries.
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Humor is an excellent method of keeping a tight rein on unproductive displays of emotion.
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The approval of a cat cannot but flatter the recipient.
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