Patricia Moyes Quotes

#1. Some brave chrysanthemums still stood in the country gardens, but they looked like bedraggled survivors of a battle, barely able to hold their tattered banners upright. October was at the gates and autumn was in full retreat. - Author: Patricia Moyes

#2. It is often interesting, in retrospect, to consider the trifling causes that lead to great events. A chance encounter, a thoughtless remark - and the tortuous chain reaction of coincidence is set in motion, leading with devious inevitability to some resounding climax. - Author: Patricia Moyes

#3. Suffolk has something more than the coziness of Kent and Surrey. There is a hint of wildness in its tamed beauty, and the tang of the North Sea is never far away. - Author: Patricia Moyes

#4. I can never pass a cat in the street without greeting it and exchanging a few words, and the cat invariably replies. - Author: Patricia Moyes

#5. I simply cannot understand the passion that some people have for making themselves thoroughly uncomfortable and then boasting about it afterwards. - Author: Patricia Moyes

#6. Brutality is sometimes easier to endure than ridicule. - Author: Patricia Moyes

#7. The buildings ... had suffered the inevitable shrinkage of places revisited ... - Author: Patricia Moyes

#8. Angry and frustrated, the journalists set about making bricks without straw ... - Author: Patricia Moyes

#9. One doesn't really grow older; it's just that other people grow younger. - Author: Patricia Moyes

#10. I do not believe that it is possible to teach a cat to obey; that is contrary to his nature. - Author: Patricia Moyes

#11. Cats of great personality are always found in association with sensitive, cat-conscious people; it is a two-way process of immense mutual benefit. - Author: Patricia Moyes

#12. Suicide can be used as a very cruel weapon, you know. It can be the ultimate revenge, leaving a scar that a living person may carry to the grave. - Author: Patricia Moyes