Ngaio Quotes

#1. No art should be fashionable ...

Ngaio Marsh

#2. A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society.

Thomas Jefferson

#3. You must be able to write. You must have a sense of form, of pattern, of design. You must have a respect for and a mastery over words.

Ngaio Marsh

#4. Pauline had once said to me, after she was through the worst of her stunned unhappiness, that if you behave as if you are all right, then one day you will be.

Nicci French

#5. Why do you want to become an author? I will accept only one answer. If it is because you feel you can write better than you can do anything else then go ahead and do it without frills and flourishes. Stick to your present job and write in your spare time: but do it as if it is a whole time job.

Ngaio Marsh

#6. I worship the ground Paul Ryan walks on.

Dick Cheney

#7. Custom makes monsters of us all.

Ngaio Marsh

#8. If you go through life looking for insults, you may be comfortably assured of finding them.

Ngaio Marsh

#9. I study history in order to give an interpretation.

Oliver Stone

#10. The universe is limit!

Angela Williamson

#11. We do not wait for inspiration. We work because we've jolly well got to. But when all is said and done, we toil at this particular job because it's turned out to be our particular job, and in a weird sort of way I suppose we may be said to like it.

Ngaio Marsh

#12. So far as my experience goes, travelers generally exaggerate the difficulties of the way. Like most evil, the difficulty is imaginary; for what's the hurry?

Henry David Thoreau

#13. It is a curious thing that when one speaks from the heart it is invariably in the worst of taste.

Ngaio Marsh

#14. her book. Ngaio Marsh. Myrna was re-reading the classics.

Louise Penny

#15. No coffee is ever quite as good as it smells ...

Ngaio Marsh

#16. Ha-ha!' the fox laughed. '*Just* stories, you say, as if stories mean nothing? Stories are the stuff that sticks the world together. Stories are the mud from which we're all made. The power to imagine stories is the power to remake the world as we dream it.

C. Alexander London

#17. One should have the courage of one's loneliness.

Ngaio Marsh

#18. As usual she had a deceptive air of perspicacity.

Ngaio Marsh

#19. There are people to whom one need not show off. It's a great comfort sometimes.

Ngaio Marsh

#20. I submit all my plays to the National Theatre for rejection. To assure myself I am seeing clearly.

Howard Barker

#21. Above all things
read. Read the great stylists who cannot be copied rather than the successful writers who must not be copied.

Ngaio Marsh

#22. Oh, how great peace and quietness would he possess who should cut off all vain anxiety and place all his confidence in God.

Thomas A Kempis

#23. Desire is arcane

M. Pierce

#24. You may be able to write a novel, you may not. You will never know until you have worked very hard indeed and written at least part of it. You will never really know until you have written the whole of it and submitted it for publication.

Ngaio Marsh

#25. Expectation is the springboard of achievement.

Ngaio Marsh

#26. No man can get rich himself unless he enriches others.

Earl Nightingale

#27. In my own life, when I was most inspired by a teacher, it always involved a real dialogue, a looseness and a real caring and compassion. It was not without rigor, not without discipline, not without standards, but all that was done out of love.

Michael Goldenberg