Sarah Caudwell Quotes

#1. It seems to us that the readers who want fiction to be like life are considerably outnumbered by those who would like life to be like fiction.

Sarah Caudwell

#2. I now realize that to see the Major when he isn't really there must at least be preferable to seeing him when he really is there.

Sarah Caudwell

#3. I had already established, as you know, that it was logically impossible for Kenneth to be distressed by anything that might occur between Ned and myself; but Kenneth, being an artist, has perhaps not studied logic and is unaware of the impossibility.

Sarah Caudwell

#4. One doesn't like to appear vulgarly inquisitive. But if everyone one knows has suddenly started murdering everyone else, it would be terribly nice to know about it.

Sarah Caudwell

#5. Things, since you left, have not gone well with me: they have taken me from a place where there was gin to a place where there is no gin[.]

Sarah Caudwell

#6. Julia did very well,' said Selena, 'not to fall into the lagoon. How beastly of that woman to suggest she'd had too much to drink.'
'Most uncharitable,' said Ragwort. 'Julia, as we all know, needs no assistance from alcohol to make her trip over things.

Sarah Caudwell

#7. The trouble with real life is that you don't know whether you're the hero or just some nice chap who gets bumped off in chapter five to show what a rotter the villain is without anyone minding too much.

Sarah Caudwell

#8. I should explain - in view of my last letter, you may find it slightly surprising - that Daphne and I are now bosom friends. That is to say, she seems to think we are; and I do not feel that I know her well enough to dispute it.

Sarah Caudwell