More and more people each year are going abroad for Christmas ... Fed up with the fact that commercial Christmas starts in October. Fed up with carols. Dreading the arrival of Christmas cards from people they have forgotten to send… — M.C. Beaton Copy Share
“The fault, dear Brutus, lies not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings.” — M.C. Beaton Copy Share Image
“Keep your place and silent be, Game can hear and game can see. —Mark Beaufoy” — M.C. Beaton Copy Share Image
“Gets the horrors something dreadful.” “If a man has the DTs, isn’t it better to get him to the hospital?” asked Hamish mildly.” — M.C. Beaton Copy Share Image
“There’s one parish church for all the people, whatsoever may be their ranks in life or their degrees, Except for one damp, small, dark, freezing cold, little Methodist chapel of ease, And close by the churchyard there’s a stonemason’s yard, that when the time is seasonable. Will furnish with afflictions sore and marble urns and cherubims very low and reasonable.… — M.C. Beaton Copy Share
Do you know why more people don't sober up? Because they don't wear their livers on the outside. If everyone wore their liver on… — M.C. Beaton Copy Share Image
A lady is as young as the gentleman she feels," said Roy and cackled happily. — M.C. Beaton Copy Share Image
“The other diners studied him with the polite frozen smiles the English use for threatening behaviour.” — M.C. Beaton Copy Share Image
That was the trouble with so many reality programmes on television - everyone wanted fame these days without necessarily working at anything to achieve… — M.C. Beaton Copy Share Image
“When love grows diseas’d, the best thing we can do is put it to a violent death; I cannot endure the torture of a… — M.C. Beaton Copy Share Image
More and more people each year are going abroad for Christmas ... Fed up with the fact that commercial Christmas starts in October. Fed up with carols. Dreading the arrival of Christmas cards from people they have forgotten to send a card to. Unable to bear yet another family get-together with Auntie Mary puking up in the corner after sampling… — M.C. Beaton Copy Share
