Top 26 M.C. Beaton Quotes
#1. And being very young and capable of violent mood swings, she then began to worry about what to wear for dinner.
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#2. Isn't it sad that we only get upset about nasty things happening to people and places if television decides we should?
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#4. He fished steadily, trying to fight down a dragging, aching sense of loss, wondering how one's brain should know all the sensible answers while one's emotions longed for the unattainable.
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#5. When confronted with someone who appears to be in a perpetual state of outrage, it is tempting for other people to wind them up. Besides, I have always found the most vociferous guardians of morality on matters of sex are those who aren't getting any.
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#6. I never wanted to be a literary writer. I wanted to be an entertainer. All I wanted was to give what a lot of writers had given me: a good time on a bad day.
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#7. A lady is as young as the gentleman she feels, said Roy and cackled happily.
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#8. Like most thin-skinned people who have been snubbed, he could not leave the snubbers alone.
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#9. What's gone, and what's past help Should be past grief. - William Shakespeare
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#10. That was the trouble with so many reality programmes on television - everyone wanted fame these days without necessarily working at anything to achieve it.
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#11. Although she far outranked Hamish, she had to wait patiently, because this was Lochdubh, where Hamish Macbeth was king.
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#12. Clever plastic surgery can restore an appearance of youth, but nothing changes the expression of age and experience in the eyes.
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#13. Just at the turn of the tide, nature held its breath - no bird sang, everything seemed to be waiting and waiting. And then, sure enough, as if someone had flicked a switch, everything started in motion again.
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#14. Husbands are always angry,
that's their nature.
And the nature of us women,
is not to pay a blind bit of notice.
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#15. Before Charles could stop her, Agatha, nervous, had launched into a full brag of all the cases she had solved.
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#16. Agatha's last case had concerned a Sweeny Todd of a murderer over at Winter Parva.
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#17. Ah, when love dies, women lose two and a half inches in height.
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#18. The whistle of the old steam trains ... could conjure up visions of bleak distances with one solitary wail.
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#19. Religion's for those who believe in hell and a spiritual belief is for those who've been there.
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#20. Mrs. Wellington was wearing a voluminous flannel nightgown when she answered the door. Hamish was glad Mr. Wellington had found God, because it certainly looked as if he would need to wait until he got to heaven to get his reward.
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#21. No one could remain an atheist with larks around, he thought dreamily.
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#23. Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be. - William Hazlitt
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#24. Okay, I'm lazy. But being lazy is a talent. Sometimes it takes an awful lot of work.
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#25. Christmas had done its usual merry work of setting husband against wife, relative against relative, and spreading bad will among men in general. People looked overfed and hung over and desperately worried about how much they had already spent.
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#26. She turned out to be one of those irritating people who get up to leave and then stand in the doorway chattering away.
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