W I Simonson Quotes

#1. She gathered up a few thoughts of the lovelier parts of the afternoon and stowed them away in the back of her mind, where they might remind her at some future date that lovely afternoons do not survive the chill of dusk.

Helen Simonson

#2. There is often an inverse correlation between genius and personal hygiene.

Helen Simonson

#3. I admire your enthusiasm...but I cannot, in good conscience, assist you with any civic unrest.'
'Civic unrest? This is war, Major," said Alice, chuckling at him. 'Man the barricades and break out the Molotov cocktails!

Helen Simonson

#4. I wish you a strong heart and the love of family this afternoon.

Helen Simonson

#5. He had always assumed gossip to be the malicious whispering of uncomfortable truths not the fabrication of absurdities. How was one to protect oneself against people making up things Was a life of careful impeccable behavior not enough in a world where inventions were passed around as fact

Helen Simonson

#6. Sometimes you can't fix everything," said Amina. "Life isn't always like books."
"No, it's not.

Helen Simonson

#7. My parents told me to marry for money,' said her husband. 'But I chose the love of a strong woman.'

'And look what trouble I turned out to be,' she said.

Helen Simonson

#8. There is nothing more corrosive to character than money.

Helen Simonson

#9. We are all small-minded people, creeping about the earth grubbing for our own advantage and making the very mistakes for which we want to humiliate our neighbors.

Helen Simonson

#10. Passion is all very well, but it wouldn't do to spill the tea.

Helen Simonson

#11. I can't abide people who dislike dogs,

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#12. An artist has been defined as a neurotic who continually cures himeself with his art

Lee Simonson

#13. Aunt Agatha says there isn't going to be a war," said Daniel, coming in behind her, laughing. "And so of course there won't be. They would never dream of defying her.

Helen Simonson

#14. Here he was dispensing them as advice when he had only just taken them in as revelation. So, he thought, do all men steal and display the shiny jackdaw treasure of other people's ideas.

Helen Simonson

#15. But if all else fails, I can always write her a sonnet." "A sonnet?" said Hugh. "No woman can resist having her name rhymed with a flower in iambic pentameter," said Daniel.

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#16. I miss being a student," said Abdul Wahid. "I miss the passionate discussions with my friends, and most of all the hours among the books.

Helen Simonson

#17. Your pen is your sword. Wield it wisely.

C.A. Simonson

#18. The age of great men, when a single mind of intelligence and vision might change the destiny of the world, was long gone.

Helen Simonson

#19. he realized he had inspired a sense of trust and indebtedness that would make it entirely impossible for an honorable man to attempt to kiss her anytime soon. He cursed himself for a fool. It

Helen Simonson

#20. The sky began to spit fat drops of rain and a cold gust of wind whipped dust and litter against his legs. The sadness vanished and he thought how glorious the day was.

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#21. He cursed himself for having assumed the weather would be sunny. Perhaps it was the result of evolution, he thought
some adaptive gene that allowed the English to go on making blithe outdoor plans in the face of almost certain rain.

Helen Simonson

#22. Humiliation is the sport of the petty

Helen Simonson

#23. How anyone could doubt the patriotism of my dachshunds is just shocking,

Helen Simonson

#24. Do you really know what it means to be in love with an unsuitable woman?" "Is there any other kind?

Helen Simonson

#25. You must know that I am entirely yours to command."
"I see chivalry lives on," she said.
"As long as there's no jousting involved, I'm your knight," he said.

Helen Simonson

#26. At our age, surely there are better things to sustain us, to sustain a marriage, than the brief flame of passion?" ... "You are mistaken, Ernest," she said at last. "There is only the passionate spark. Without it, two people living together may be lonelier than if they lived quite alone.

Helen Simonson

#27. Ah well, there you go. Young people are always demanding respect instead of trying to earn it. In my day, respect was something to strive for. Something to be given, not taken. Major Pettigrew

Helen Simonson

#28. So he dreams himself the life he cannot have?" "Exactly. But we, who can do anything, we refuse to live our dreams on the basis that they are not practical. So tell me, who is to be pitied more?

Helen Simonson

#29. I believe there is a great deal too much mutual confession going on today, as if sharing one's problems somehow makes them go away. All it really does, of course, is increase the number of people who have to worry about a particular issue.

Helen Simonson

#30. Memories were like tomb paintings, thought the Major, the colors still vivid no matter how many layers of mud and sand time deposited. Scrape at them and they come up all red and blazing.

Helen Simonson