Mary Allsebrook Quotes

#1. She was never neutral, but she could be tolerant, although it was hard work - never a tolerance of indifference.

Mary Allsebrook

#2. [The tamed squirrels] made jolly companions but became very annoyed with her if she read too long; one would climb onto her shoulder, down her arm and sit on the page of her book 'with bushy tail outspread'.

Mary Allsebrook

#3. She liked to be in the thick of things and did not delegate easily, except where domestic chores were concerned.

Mary Allsebrook

#4. Greeks are born talkers," wrote Harriet. The deputies were no exception, with or without their twirling conversation beads. They seldom used notes, at times she wished they had; a few facts and figures would have been a relief from the sweeping statements.

Mary Allsebrook

#5. The gallant captain vacated his cabin for her, and Manna changed her role from cook to chaperone. All most correct. But it was hardly the done thing to cadge a lift on a torpedo boat. Yet she did it twice in a lifetime.

Mary Allsebrook

#6. No outsider was allowed in the station except wives of the higher officers and a few friends. Where was Harriet in all this excitement? In the station, taking the train with the troops to Piraeus.

Mary Allsebrook

#7. Prayer cannot be a substitution for action.

Mary Allsebrook

#8. Most men in the ward were now convalescing. To her, "each day the nurse's duties became lighter and therefore more irksome.

Mary Allsebrook