5 Quotes by Margery Sharp

If he's a poet, why's he in jail?" demanded a suspicious voice. Madam Chairwoman shrugged velvet shoulders. "Perhaps he writes free verse," she suggested cunningly. A stir of approval answered her. Mice are all for people being free, so that they too can be freed form their eternal task of cheering prisoners--so that they can stay snug at home, nibbling the family cheese, instead of sleeping out in damp straw on a diet of stale bread.

Meself I like a breath of air before I go to bed, same as I like a bite o' cheese or something before I take me teeth out.

My darling, why didn't you say so before? You know, I sometimes wonder," she added, turning to Ann, "what it would be like to have no children.""Jolly dull, " said John. "you'd be bored stiff. What would you do all day?""Well I could read a little," said Mrs Gayford, rather vaguely, "really good books, you know, and the Times Literary Supplement. I used to be very fond of it.

If you had a smattering of education you would realize that perfection of form can give validity to any sentiment, however preposterous.

Meself I like a breath of air before I go to bed, same as I like a bite o’ cheese or something before I take me teeth out.