46 Quotes by Patricia Wentworth

Mary didn't know just what prompted her answer. She was the most candid of women, but you don't tell a man everything where another woman is concerned.

Take things as they come. Take things as they are. What does it matter? There’s one end to everything.

Too much information can be as disconcerting as too little.

Most of the things one worries about never happen.

It is always better to say too little than too much.

Things you can’t understand are always the hardest to bear. To know why is the first step to consolation.

When there is too much to say it is easier to say nothing at all.

The fact is, for most of us, what happens to ourselves is so much more important than what happens to other people that the smallest mote in our own eye will prevent us from being unduly harrowed by someone else’s beam.

She was music, poetry, and the enchantment which lies just over the edge of thought.