Mary Ann Shaffer Quotes
Top 63 wise famous quotes and sayings by Mary Ann Shaffer
Mary Ann Shaffer Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Miss X has always been a ditherer
she was a ten month baby and has not improved in any material way since then.
she was a ten month baby and has not improved in any material way since then.
Oh bless Speranza, for giving her son such a preposterous name as Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde.
Treat a dog right and he'll treat you right ... Cats is different, but I never held it against them.
Juliet, none of your margin notes! Sophie, dear, don't let her drink coffee while she reads. And off we'd go with new books to read.
He's always had more than his fair share of what we call cheek and what Americans call can-do spirit.
I am to cover the philosophical side of the debate and so far my only thought is that reading keeps you from going gaga.
I've read fast - too impatient not to. But I'll go back and start over again - reading more slowly this time, so I can take everything in.
He wants me to stay in London and go to restaurants and theaters and marry him like a reasonable person.
Those times, I tried to think of something happy, something I'd liked - but not something I loved, for that made it worse.
I wonder how the book got to Guernsey? Perhaps there is some secret sort of homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers.
Grandpa, that's something I never am." I asked him, "What's that?" And he said, "Lonesome in my spirits." Eli to Eben
Perhaps there is some secret sort of homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers. How delightful if that were true.
On the page, I'm perfectly charming, but that's just a trick I learned. It has nothing to do with me.
All his flowers have been awaiting me on my arrival. I don't know whether to feel flattered or hunted.
I am no proof against compliments, especially compliments about my writing. I'll be delighted to dine with you.
He's got that way of believing his opinion is the truth, but he's not disagreeable about it. He's too sure he's right to bother being disagreeable.
I have gone to [this bookshop] for years, always finding the one book I wanted - and then three more I hadn't known I wanted.
What a blight that woman is. Do you happen to know why? I lean toward a malignant fairy at her christening.
I swear, Sophie, I think there's something wrong with me. Every man I meet is intolerable. Perhaps I should set my sights lower[ ... ]
Would you like to hear of my first sight of the Germans? I'll use adjectives to make it more lively. I usually don't.
I miss the feeling that we understood one another, but I begin to think that was only my delusion all along.
Boredom is a powerful reason, and the prospect of fun is a powerful draw - especially when you are young.
My neighbour Evangeline Smythe is going to have twins in June. She is none too happy about it, so I am going to ask her to give one of them to me
I was able to un-stick my tongue from the roof of my mouth after the first two minutes and began to have quite a good time.