Betty MacDonald Quotes

• There’s nothing as cozy as a piece of candy and a book.

  Betty MacDonald

  Book, Pieces, Cozy

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• I am neither Christian enough nor charitable enough to like anybody just because he is alive and breathing. I want people to interest or amuse me. I want them fascinating and witty or so dul as to be different. I want them either intellectually stimulating or wonderfully corny; perfectly charming or hundred percent stinker. I like my chosen companions to be distinguishable from the undulating masses and I don't care how.

  Betty MacDonald

  Christian, Witty, Breathing

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• The coffee was so strong it snarled as it lurched out of the pot.

  Betty MacDonald

  Strong, Coffee, Pot

  BETTY MACDONALD (1945). “THE EGG AND I”

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• In the country Sunday is the day on which you do exactly as much work as you do on other days but feel guilty all the time you are doing it because Sunday is a day of rest.

  Betty MacDonald

  Country, Sunday, Guilty

  BETTY MACDONALD (1945). “THE EGG AND I”

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• Her magic formula for dealing with children is ignoring all faults and accenting tiny virtues. She says, "Instead of telling Tommy day in and day out that he is the naughtiest boy in the United States of America, which could very well be true, take an aspirin and comment on his neatly tied shoes. Almost anybody would rather be known for expert shoe-tying than for kicking the cat." She always tells whiners how charming they are--bullies how brave--bad sports how good--sneaks how honest!

  Betty MacDonald

  Sports, Children, Cat

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• Dare we face the question of just how much of the darkness around us is of our own making?

  Betty MacDonald

  Darkness, Faces, Trouble

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• I'll do it because I want to but not because you tell me to!

  Betty MacDonald

  Want

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• a grudge will soon rot the pocket you carry it in.

  Betty MacDonald

  Pockets, Bitterness, Resentment

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• In the country, weather is as important as food and sometimes means the difference between life and death.

  Betty MacDonald

  Country, Mean, Weather

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• Our little room was morbidly quiet and sorrow was heaped in my corner like dirty snow.

  Betty MacDonald

  Dirty, Snow, Sorrow

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• Gammy used to say, 'Too much scrubbing takes the life right out of things.'

  Betty MacDonald

  Too Much, Used, Dishes

  BETTY MACDONALD (1945). “THE EGG AND I”

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