It is easier to counterfeit old age than youth.
BARBARA MERTZI’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.
More Barbara Mertz Quotes
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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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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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I do not scruple to employ mendacity and a fictitious appearance of female incompetence when the occasion demands it.
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It was hate at first sight, clean, pure and strong as grain alcohol.
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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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…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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Husbands do not care to be contradicted. Indeed, I do not know anyone who does.
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Nothing looks as self-satisfied as a contented cat.
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The opportunity to lecture had restored my good humor.
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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 sadder than the cheerful letters of the dead, expressing hopes that were never fulfilled, ambitions that were never achieved, dreams cut off before they could come to fruition.
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I would never have supposed that inexperienced girl was capable of such cold-blooded, calculating manipulation!
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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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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.
BARBARA MERTZ