9 Quotes by Charlotte MacLeod

Why do women have this perverse talent for sneaking up on a man and whamming him over the head with some inconsequential chore when he has his mind on weightier issues?""Because men have this perverse talent for weaseling out of the chores on the specious grounds that doing a little honest work around the place is less important than playing Cops & Robbers with Fred Ottermole.

Him? Make the trip twice? I might have believed it if I'd seen it, but I didn't, so I won't.

Scions of old families who've hit the skids do like to flaunt their illustrious ancestors....

Not that he'd have doubted Helen's word in any case; she was a librarian, and librarians were never wrong.

Scions of old families who’ve hit the skids do like to flaunt their illustrious ancestors...

Don’t you have something plain and wholesome, like scotch or bourbon?

Man cannot live by swine alone.

Shandy. Have you begun your Ptolemaic.

Not that he’d have doubted Helen’s word in any case; she was a librarian, and librarians were never wrong.