Quote

I sometimes wonder what it would be like to be the respected patriarch of an ordinary English family. Very boring, Emerson.

Barbara Mertz

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Barbara Mertz
Age: 85 †
Born: 1927
Born: September 29
Died: 2013
Died: August 8
Archaeologist
Author
Egyptologist
Novelist
Writer
Canton
Illinois
Elizabeth Peters
Barbara Michaels
Barbara Louise Mertz
Boring
English
Ordinary
Wonder
Family
Sometimes
Patriarch
Would
Emerson
Like
Respected

More quotes by Barbara Mertz

Image
A fondness for martyrdom, especially of the verbal variety, is common to the young.
Barbara Mertz
Image
...Nefret said with a gusty sigh, 'Well, that's done it. We may as well join in, Ramses, family arguments are the favorite form of amusement here and this looks like being a loud one.
Barbara Mertz
Image
Noble causes have a deplorable effect on the morals of the persons who espouse them.
Barbara Mertz
Image
Is is difficult to be angry with a gentleman who pays you compliments, even impertinent compliments. Especially impertinent compliments.
Barbara Mertz
Image
stereotypes are awfully misleading. There are typical librarians, but not all librarians are typical.
Barbara Mertz
Image
Sometimes the characters develop almost without your knowing it. You find them doing things you hadn't planned on, and then I have to go back to page 42 and fix things. I'm not recommending it as a way to write. It's very sloppy, but it works for me.
Barbara Mertz
Image
I don't think she realized how much she cared for him, or he for her, until the end. Hasn't someone said a woman may be known by the men who love her enough to die for her? (If they haven't, I claim the credit myself.)
Barbara Mertz
Image
Cats always pick the laps of the people who don't like them.
Barbara Mertz
Image
When one is striding bravely into the future one cannot watch one's footing.
Barbara Mertz
Image
The approval of a cat cannot but flatter the recipient.
Barbara Mertz
Image
I can do a book in three months if I spend all day, seven days a week at it and, in fact, I work better that way.
Barbara Mertz
Image
Getting an idea for a book is not the problem, but you need 300 ideas - an idea a page.
Barbara Mertz
Image
Most men are reasonably useful in a crisis. The difficulty lies in convincing them that the situation has reached a critical point
Barbara Mertz
Image
I knew the answer, and--of course--so did Ramses. He has superb breath control and always gets in ahead of me.
Barbara Mertz
Image
It's not unsporting to thrash a cowardly cad,' said Simmons. 'Everyone knows you don't fight like a gentleman.' 'That might be called an oxymoron,' Ramses said. 'Oh--sorry. Bad form to use long words. Look it up when you get home.' The poor devil didn't know how to fight, like a gentleman or otherwise.
Barbara Mertz
Image
Emerson,' I said, choosing my words with care, 'it is a sheer drop from the cleft down to the base of the cliff. If you are bent on breaking your arm or your leg or your neck or all three, find a place closer to home so we won't have to carry you such a distance.
Barbara Mertz
Image
Spring is always cruel, with its false promise of resurrection.
Barbara Mertz
Image
Superstition has its practical uses.
Barbara Mertz
Image
I would never have supposed that inexperienced girl was capable of such cold-blooded, calculating manipulation!
Barbara Mertz
Image
The combination of physical strength and moral sincerity combined with tenderness of heart is exactly what is wanted in a husband.--Ameila Peabody
Barbara Mertz