Children want one thing at a time, and want that one thing passionately. Patricia Wentworth More Quotes by Patricia Wentworth More Quotes From Patricia Wentworth ... the things that happened in your body were never as bad as the things that happened in your mind. Patricia Wentworth happened body mind There is and always has been for me a peculiar need to write. This is very different from wanting to be a writer. To be a writer always seemed something so far removed from my talents and abilities and imaginings that it didn't afflict me at all as a notion when I was young. But I was always conscious that I wanted to write. Patricia Wentworth different peculiar writing A good many established writers seem to have the feeling that some day they are going to be found out, revealed as frauds. Patricia Wentworth good-man found feelings Love and a cold cannot be hid. It is, I believe, a Spanish proverb. Patricia Wentworth cold i-believe believe There's a general consensus of opinion that people in love are apt to look silly -- except to each other. Patricia Wentworth silly people looks You can't do such a lot and do it all so well and have much time left for the ordinary human feelings. Patricia Wentworth perfection ordinary feelings Money's a very serious thing - especially when you haven't got any. Patricia Wentworth serious-things money serious if you cannot get what you want, common sense suggests that you should put your mind to wanting what you can get. Patricia Wentworth common-sense ambition mind Anger was both a disfiguring and a revealing passion. Patricia Wentworth revealing passion anger Mary Stuart wrote, 'My end is in my beginning.' It is easier to agree with her than to decide what is the beginning, and what is the end. Patricia Wentworth mary easier ends It is the man who is sure of himself who disregards the opinion of the world. To be sure is to have power. Patricia Wentworth confidence power men Emotion which you do not share can become intolerable. Patricia Wentworth emotion share happy people have got something to give to the world. Patricia Wentworth happiness giving people You cannot divide minds into sexes. Each human being presents an individual problem. Patricia Wentworth problem mind sex Once a suggestion has entered the general atmosphere of human thought, it is very difficult to neutralise it. Patricia Wentworth atmosphere suggestions ideas Too much information can be as disconcerting as too little. Patricia Wentworth too-much-information information littles when married people begin to talk about their rights, it means something has gone pretty far wrong between them. Patricia Wentworth rights mean people Husbands and wives quarrel a lot more than anyone thinks, and it's oftener about little things than big ones. Patricia Wentworth wife husband thinking It's surprising how soon you can get used to having money. It's much easier than getting used to not having it. Patricia Wentworth easier used money I do not approve of children being beaten. It is always a confession of failure. Patricia Wentworth confession abuse children
