114 Quotes by Sue Townsend

He had always had difficulty in recognising an emotion.

Your trouble is, you want to be happy all the time. You’re fifty years old – haven’t you realized yet that most of the time most of us just trudge through life? Happy days are few and far between.

At four o’clock I had one of those rare moments of happiness that I will remember all my life. I was sitting in front of Grandma’s electric coal fire eating dripping toast and reading the News of the World. There was a good play on Radio Four about torturing in concentration camps. Grandma was asleep and the dog was being quiet. All at once I felt this dead good feeling. Perhaps I am turning religious. I think I have got it in me to be a Saint of some kind.

Just measured my thing. It has grown one centimetre. I might be needing it soon.

Goodness means telling good lies, so that people won’t get hurt by true words.

Live with all of your senses.