46 Quotes by Patricia Wentworth

The most trying moments in human experience were those in which there was nothing to be done except to wait.

It is the man who is sure of himself who disregards the opinion of the world. To be sure is to have power.

A lie that is half a truth is ever the hardest to fight.

When you’ve just made the most complete fool of yourself, you feel the need of a specially high horse to ride.

My dear father always said that when everybody had a telephone nobody would have any manners, because there wouldn’t be time for them. And of course he was perfectly right...

You cannot divide minds into sexes. Each human being presents an individual problem.

She was a little bit of a thing with a light untidy fluff of hair and a nose which went pink in moments of emotion. It was pink now and it quivered. She dabbed aimlessly at her hair and three of the remaining pins fell out. William stooped to pick them up, and wished he hadn’t. He said he thought he would go to bed, and went.

There’s a general consensus of opinion that people in love are apt to look silly – except to each other.

You can’t do such a lot and do it all so well and have much time left for the ordinary human feelings.