Patricia Wentworth Quotes - Page 2

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• Mary Stuart wrote, 'My end is in my beginning.' It is easier to agree with her than to decide what is the beginning, and what is the end.

  Patricia Wentworth

  Easier, Ends, Mary

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• Children want one thing at a time, and want that one thing passionately.

  Patricia Wentworth

  Children, Want, One Thing At A Time

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• Being in a rage was rather like being out in a thunderstorm - you couldn't hear yourself think.

  Patricia Wentworth

  Anger, Thinking, Rage

  Patricia Wentworth (1992). “The Ivory Dagger”, Perennial

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• My dear father always said that when everybody had a telephone nobody would have any manners, because there wouldn't be time for them. And of course he was perfectly right.

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  Father, Telephones, Manners

  Patricia Wentworth (2005). “The Chinese Shawl”, p.34, Hachette UK

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• Emotion which you do not share can become intolerable.

  Patricia Wentworth

  Emotion, Share

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• There is and always has been for me a peculiar need to write. This is very different from wanting to be a writer. To be a writer always seemed something so far removed from my talents and abilities and imaginings that it didn't afflict me at all as a notion when I was young. But I was always conscious that I wanted to write.

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  Writing, Different, Peculiar

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• Too much information can be as disconcerting as too little.

  Patricia Wentworth

  Littles, Too Much Information, Information

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• You cannot divide minds into sexes. Each human being presents an individual problem.

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  Sex, Mind, Problem

  Patricia Wentworth (1969). “The Brading Collection”

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• when married people begin to talk about their rights, it means something has gone pretty far wrong between them.

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  Mean, Rights, People

  Patricia Wentworth (1996). “She Came Back”, Harpercollins

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• Money's a very serious thing - especially when you haven't got any.

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  Money, Serious Things, Serious

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• Anger was both a disfiguring and a revealing passion.

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  Anger, Passion, Revealing

  Patricia Wentworth (1992). “The Ivory Dagger”, Perennial

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• I do not approve of children being beaten. It is always a confession of failure.

  Patricia Wentworth

  Children, Abuse, Confession

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• Love and a cold cannot be hid. It is, I believe, a Spanish proverb.

  Patricia Wentworth

  Believe, I Believe, Cold

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• There's a general consensus of opinion that people in love are apt to look silly -- except to each other.

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  Silly, People, Looks

  Patricia Wentworth (1953). “Vanishing point”

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• ... the things that happened in your body were never as bad as the things that happened in your mind.

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  Mind, Body, Happened

  Patricia Wentworth (1958). “The Alington inheritance”

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• It's surprising how soon you can get used to having money. It's much easier than getting used to not having it.

  Patricia Wentworth

  Money, Easier, Used

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