115 Quotes by Barbara Mertz

His masculinity was only too apparent

The way to get on with a cat is to treat it as an equal - or even better, as the superior it knows itself to be.

Is is difficult to be angry with a gentleman who pays you compliments, even impertinent compliments. Especially impertinent compliments.

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.)

When one is striding bravely into the future one cannot watch one's footing.

There are too many people in the world as it is, but the supply of ancient manuscripts is severely limited.

If you take a man by surprise, and behave with sufficient arrogance, he will generally do what you ask. -Emerson

..he continues to cling to the forlorn hope that I will turn into one of those swooning females...and fling myself squeeling at him whenever anything happens. Like all men, he clings to his illusions.

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.)