Ngaio Marsh Quotes

If you go through life looking for insults, you may be comfortably assured of finding them.

Above all things
read. Read the great stylists who cannot be copied rather than the successful writers who must not be copied.

There are people to whom one need not show off. It's a great comfort sometimes.

Expectation is the springboard of achievement.

Custom makes monsters of us all.

No coffee is ever quite as good as it smells ...

It is a curious thing that when one speaks from the heart it is invariably in the worst of taste.

No art should be fashionable ...

You must be able to write. You must have a sense of form, of pattern, of design. You must have a respect for and a mastery over words.

One should have the courage of one's loneliness.

As usual she had a deceptive air of perspicacity.