But the dust! And the clutter! My housewifely and scholarly instincts were equally offended.
BARBARA MERTZIn 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.)
More Barbara Mertz Quotes
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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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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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I do hope you have some money. I’m getting tired of hitting people.
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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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The opportunity to lecture had restored my good humor.
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Emerson,’ I said, choosing my words with care, ‘it is a sheer drop from the cleft down to the base of the cliff. If you are bent on breaking your arm or your leg or your neck or all three, find a place closer to home so we won’t have to carry you such a distance.
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The trouble with unknown enemies is that they are so difficult to identify.
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It may take us a little longer to reach the summit, but never fear, we will get there!
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A lady cannot be blamed if a master criminal takes a fancy to her.
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The approval of a cat cannot but flatter the recipient.
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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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Cats 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.
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It is easier to counterfeit old age than youth.
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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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It was hate at first sight, clean, pure and strong as grain alcohol.
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