Patricia Wentworth Quotes - Page 2

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

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

A good many established writers seem to have the feeling that some day they are going to be found out, revealed as frauds.

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

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

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

The most trying moments in human experience were those in which there was nothing to be done except to wait.

Anger was both a disfiguring and a revealing passion.

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.

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

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.

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

Emotion which you do not share can become intolerable.

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

You can't do such a lot and do it all so well and have much time left for the ordinary human feelings.

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.