Quote

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 a husband? I assure you, I have yet to meet a man as sensible as myself! (Amelia Peabody)

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
Men
Intelligent
Matrimony
Female
Whim
Meet
Assure
Husband
Sensible
Peabody
Subjects
Tyranny
Tyrannies
Choose
Principle
Amelia
Principles
Subject
Disapprove
Matter
Independent
Whims

More quotes by Barbara Mertz

Image
A lady cannot be blamed if a master criminal takes a fancy to her.
Barbara Mertz
Image
Superstition has its practical uses.
Barbara Mertz
Image
You are softening toward the young rascal because he is ill, and because he says he likes cats. It is an engaging quality, Emerson. That depends, said Emerson darkly, on how he likes them.
Barbara Mertz
Image
The only way to do it is to do it: by writing, writing, writing.
Barbara Mertz
Image
I have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny.
Barbara Mertz
Image
It is easier to counterfeit old age than youth.
Barbara Mertz
Image
If all else fails, we will simply have to drug our attendants, overpower the guards, raise the oppressed peasants to arms, and take over the government.
Barbara Mertz
Image
That's maturity-when you realize that you've finally arrived at a state of ignorance as profound as your parents.
Barbara Mertz
Image
The approval of a cat cannot but flatter the recipient.
Barbara Mertz
Image
Your trousers are on fire. I would have told you, but you so dislike advice.
Barbara Mertz
Image
I do not scruple to employ mendacity and a fictitious appearance of female incompetence when the occasion demands it.
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
In the silence I heard Bastet, who had retreated under the bed, carrying on a mumbling, profane monologue. (If you ask how I knew it was profane, I presume you have never owned a cat.)
Barbara Mertz
Image
a church ought to express the joy of religion as well as its majesty.
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
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
I am so tired of ruggedly handsome heroes. I don't know too many ruggedly handsome people who are necessarily nice people. In fact, the beautiful people have a big handicap because they rely too much on their appearance and don't bother to become interesting.
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
Martyrdom is often the result of excessive gullibility.
Barbara Mertz
Image
Nothing looks as self-satisfied as a contented cat.
Barbara Mertz