Amelia Peabody Quotes
- I do not scruple to employ mendacity and a fictitious appearance of female incompetence when the occasion demands it. — Barbara Mertz
- No woman really wants a man to carry her off; she only wants him to want to do it. — Barbara Mertz
- Most men are reasonably useful in a crisis. The difficulty lies in convincing them that the situation has reached a critical point — Barbara Mertz
- I would never have supposed that inexperienced girl was capable of such cold-blooded, calculating manipulation! — Barbara Mertz
- Is is difficult to be angry with a gentleman who pays you compliments, even impertinent compliments. Especially impertinent compliments. — Barbara Mertz
- There was no warning, not even a knock. The door flew open, and he forgot his present aches and pains in anticipation of what lay… — Barbara Mertz
- I disapprove of matrimony as a matter of principle.... Why should any independent, intelligent female choose to subject herself to the whims and tyrannies of… — Barbara Mertz
- Your trousers are on fire. I would have told you, but you so dislike advice... — Barbara Mertz