A lie that is half a truth is ever the hardest to fight.
--Patricia Wentworth
Any road is bound to arrive somewhere if you follow it far enough.
--Patricia Wentworth
Anyone who pretends not to be interested in money is either a fool or a knave.
--Patricia Wentworth
Emotion which you do not share can become intolerable.
--Patricia Wentworth
If you cannot get what you want, common sense suggests that you should put your mind to wanting what you can get.
--Patricia Wentworth
Infallibility requires a great deal of charm to carry it off.
--Patricia Wentworth
It is the man who is sure of himself who disregards the opinion of the world. To be sure is to have power.
--Patricia Wentworth
Money's a very serious thing- especially when you haven't got any.
--Patricia Wentworth
Most of the things one worries about never happen.
--Patricia Wentworth
Nobody likes to be accused of a virtue.
--Patricia Wentworth
Once a suggestion has entered the general atmosphere of human thought, it is very difficult to neutralixe it.
--Patricia Wentworth
Simplicity is the most difficult thing in the world to ape.
--Patricia Wentworth
Take things as they come. Take things as they are. What does it matter? There's one end to everything.
--Patricia Wentworth
The most trying moments in human experience were those in which there was nothing to be done except to wait.
--Patricia Wentworth
Too much information can be as disconcerting as too little.
--Patricia Wentworth
You cannot divide minds into sexes. Each human being presents an individual problem.
--Patricia Wentworth
You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.
--Patricia Wentworth
Found 17 occurence(s) in 52,450 quotation(s).
Categories:
Quotes of the day
KGB Quotation Database Search page design and software
contributed by Rafal Sulejman.