the whistle of the old steam trains ... could conjure up visions of bleak distances with one solitary wail. — M.C. Beaton Copy Share Image
“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,… — M.C. Beaton Copy Share Image
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… — M.C. Beaton Copy Share Image
