Top 40 Patricia Wentworth Quotes
#1. Love and a cold cannot be hid. It is, I believe, a Spanish proverb.
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#2. When you've just made the most complete fool of yourself, you feel the need of a specially high horse to ride.
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#3. The fact is, for most of us, what happens to ourselves is so much more important than what happens to other people that the smallest mote in our own eye will prevent us from being unduly harrowed by someone else's beam.
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#5. It isn't good tactics to ask for something that you know will be refused.
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#7. It is the man who is sure of himself who disregards the opinion of the world. To be sure is to have power.
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#8. There's a general consensus of opinion that people in love are apt to look silly
except to each other.
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#9. If you cannot get what you want, common sense suggests that you should put your mind to wanting what you can get.
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#10. Take things as they come. Take things as they are. What does it matter? There's one end to everything.
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#11. There are virtues which are very well in the abstract, but which, encountered in the flesh, can be a source of extreme irritation.
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#12. Being in a rage was rather like being out in a thunderstorm - you couldn't hear yourself think.
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#13. One cannot withdraw from the life of the community. Injury to one member of it cannot fail to be the concern of all.
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#14. Husbands and wives quarrel a lot more than anyone thinks, and it's oftener about little things than big ones ...
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#15. You can't do such a lot and do it all so well and have much time left for the ordinary human feelings.
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#16. You cannot divide minds into sexes. Each human being presents an individual problem.
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#17. Things you can't understand are always the hardest to bear. To know why is the first step to consolation.
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#20. Anyone who pretends not to be interested in money is either a fool or a knave.
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#23. Money's a very serious thing - especially when you haven't got any.
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#24. My dear father always said that when everybody had a telephone nobody would have any manners, because there wouldn't be time for them. And of course he was perfectly right ...
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#25. I do not approve of children being beaten. It is always a confession of failure.
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#26. The things that happened in your body were never as bad as the things that happened in your mind.
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#29. A good many established writers seem to have the feeling that some day they are going to be found out, revealed as frauds.
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#30. It's surprising how soon you can get used to having money. It's much easier than getting used to not having it.
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#31. The most trying moments in human experience were those in which there was nothing to be done except to wait.
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#34. When married people begin to talk about their rights, it means something has gone pretty far wrong between them.
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#36. Once a suggestion has entered the general atmosphere of human thought, it is very difficult to neutralise it.
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#37. Children want one thing at a time, and want that one thing passionately.
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#38. Mary Stuart wrote, 'My end is in my beginning.' It is easier to agree with her than to decide what is the beginning, and what is the end.
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#39. There is a country proverb which says, 'If you don't trouble trouble - trouble won't trouble you.
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#40. The fact is, people who don't have any misfortunes are very irritating to their neighbours. No opportunities for popping in with condolences and new-laid eggs. No visits to the afflicted. No opportunities for the milk of human kindness to flow. Naturally it doesn't.
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