if you cannot get what you want, common sense suggests that you should put your mind to wanting what you can get. — Patricia Wentworth Copy Share Image
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… — Patricia Wentworth Copy Share Image
I do not approve of children being beaten. It is always a confession of failure. — Patricia Wentworth Copy Share Image
when married people begin to talk about their rights, it means something has gone pretty far wrong between them. — Patricia Wentworth Copy Share Image
When there is too much to say it is easier to say nothing at all. — Patricia Wentworth Copy Share Image
Love and a cold cannot be hid. It is, I believe, a Spanish proverb. — Patricia Wentworth Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Anyone who pretends not to be interested in money is either a fool or a knave. — Patricia Wentworth Copy Share Image
“I am extremely sorry to disturb you. I hope that you had not retired?" "I'm putting it off as long as possible. I don't… — Patricia Wentworth Copy Share Image
Any road is bound to arrive somewhere if you follow it far enough — Patricia Wentworth Copy Share Image
Mary Stuart wrote, 'My end is in my beginning.' It is easier to agree with her than to decide what is the beginning, and… — Patricia Wentworth Copy Share Image
“Henry, for heaven's sake! You can't propose when I'm fainting!” — Patricia Wentworth Copy Share Image
When you've just made the most complete fool of yourself, you feel the need of a specially high horse to ride. — Patricia Wentworth Copy Share Image
Husbands and wives quarrel a lot more than anyone thinks, and it's oftener about little things than big ones. — Patricia Wentworth Copy Share Image
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… — Patricia Wentworth Copy Share Image
There is a country proverb which says, 'If you don't trouble trouble - trouble won't trouble you. — Patricia Wentworth Copy Share Image
