The Ivory Dagger
A source page for quotes linked to Patricia Wentworth.
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“Any road is bound to arrive somewhere if you follow it far enough”
“I do not approve of children being beaten. It is always a confession of failure.”
“Anger was both a disfiguring and a revealing passion.”
Source: The Ivory Dagger
“Being in a rage was rather like being out in a thunderstorm - you couldn't hear yourself think.”
Source: The Ivory Dagger
“Children want one thing at a time, and want that one thing passionately.”
Source: Poison in the Pen
“it isn't good tactics to ask for something that you know will be refused.”
“happy people have got something to give to the world.”
Source: Vanishing point
“You cannot divide minds into sexes. Each human being presents an individual problem.”
Source: The Brading Collection
Source: The Miss Silver Mysteries: Grey Mask, The Case Is Closed, and Lonesome Road
“Too much information can be as disconcerting as too little.”
Source: The Ivory Dagger
Source: She Came Back
Source: Miss Silver Intervenes
“Anyone who pretends not to be interested in money is either a fool or a knave.”
“Money's a very serious thing - especially when you haven't got any.”
“When there is too much to say it is easier to say nothing at all.”
Source: The Chinese Shawl
“There is a country proverb which says, 'If you don't trouble trouble - trouble won't trouble you.”
Source: The Girl In The Cellar
“Love and a cold cannot be hid. It is, I believe, a Spanish proverb.”
Source: Vanishing point
Source: The Alington inheritance
Source: The Alington inheritance