Elizabeth Peabody Quotes

#1. I wouldn't let anyone say a bad word about Cheryl Cole.

Luke Pasqualino

#2. I disapprove of matrimony as a matter of principle ... Why should any independent, intelligent female choose to subject herself to the whims and tyrannies of a husband? I assure you, I have yet to meet a man as sensible as myself! (Amelia Peabody)

Elizabeth Peters

#3. Is is difficult to be angry with a gentleman who pays you compliments, even impertinent compliments. Especially impertinent compliments.

Elizabeth Peters

#4. His lips parted, but long years of experience with Ramses, and to some extent, Emerson, had taught me how to turn a conversation into a monologue.

Elizabeth Peters

#5. Talking about stepping down in five years is frankly not a topic of particular actuality now.

Carlos Ghosn

#6. Are we all agreed? Excellent. Then Peabody had better retire to her bed; she is clearly in need of recuperative sleep, she has not made a sarcastic remark for fully ten minutes.

Elizabeth Peters

#7. The roar of an angry crowd is one of the most terrifying sounds in the world.

Elizabeth Peters

#8. In order to see, you have to stop being in the middle of the picture

Sri Aurobindo

#9. Emerson, do you mean it?' 'It is only your due, my dear Peabody. Spite and selfishness alone kept me from beginning on them long ago. You deserve pyramids, and pyramids you will have!

Elizabeth Peters

#10. The men had scattered in all directions, which men are inclined to do when women leave them to their own devices for any length of time. I believe they are easily bored.

Elizabeth Peters

#11. Most men are reasonably useful in a crisis. The difficulty lies in convincing them that the situation has reached a critical point

Elizabeth Peters

#12. You don't do so well with marriage. I don't think you've begun to realize all there is for you to love. And I know you better than anyone & here's what I know about you: You have so much love to give! But I feel like you're all the time digging in the tomato bin, saying, Where are the apples?

Elizabeth Berg

#13. I would never have supposed that inexperienced girl was capable of such cold-blooded, calculating manipulation!

Elizabeth Peters

#14. Emerson has what I believe is called a selective memory. He can recall minute details of particular excavations but is likely to forget where he left his hat.

Elizabeth Peters

#15. God help the poor mummy who encounters you, Peabody," he said bitterly. "We ought to supply it with a pistol, to even the odds.

Elizabeth Peters

#16. I do not scruple to employ mendacity and a fictitious appearance of female incompetence when the occasion demands it.

Elizabeth Peters

#17. No woman really wants a man to carry her off; she only wants him to want to do it.

Elizabeth Peters

#18. I don't know why I should have been so pleased to see Lucas behaving like a gentleman for a change. I never liked the man ... But of course I know why. I would have defended Satan himself if he had been in disfavor with Emerson.

Elizabeth Peters

#19. We do not attach ourselves lastingly to anything that has not cost us care, labor or longing.

Honore De Balzac

#20. Those stolen kisses and conversations were sweeter than any he had ever imagined, perhaps because he had waited for them and had never broken his vows.

Melanie Dickerson

#21. Your trousers are on fire. I would have told you, but you so dislike advice ...

Elizabeth Peters

#22. There was no warning, not even a knock. The door flew open, and he forgot his present aches and pains in anticipation of what lay in store. The figure that stood in the door was not that of an enemy. It was worse. It was his mother.

Elizabeth Peters

#23. The combination of physical strength and moral sincerity combined with tenderness of heart is exactly what is wanted in a husband.
Ameila Peabody

Elizabeth Peters

#24. Men are frightful nuisances at times; how much simpler life would be if we women did not have to make allowances for their little peculiarities.

Elizabeth Peters

#25. The problem with every story is you tell it after the fact.

Chuck Palahniuk

#26. Men like to create unnecessary organizations and give them impressive or mysterious names; this usually ends in increased confusion, and should therefore be ignored.

Elizabeth Peters

#27. When he had first come to Mr. Peabody he had not wanted to look back. He had felt like someone just awake after a nightmare, and afraid to think about it lest it catch him again, but now the evil had receded so far that he liked to set it as a backcloth to the procession of his shining days.

Elizabeth Goudge

#28. Remember, one just man causes the Devil greater affliction than a million blind believers.

Khalil Gibran

#29. It is more important to repeat a mantra several times with total absorption than to parrot it for hours on end.

Frederick Lenz