My dear father always said that when everybody had a telephone nobody would have any manners, because there wouldn't be time for them. And of course he was perfectly right. Patricia Wentworth More Quotes by Patricia Wentworth More Quotes From Patricia Wentworth there are virtues which are very well in the abstract, but which, encountered in the flesh, can be a source of extreme irritation. Patricia Wentworth irritation virtue flesh Anyone who pretends not to be interested in money is either a fool or a knave. Patricia Wentworth knaves fool money Take things as they come. Take things as they are. What does it matter? There's one end to everything. Patricia Wentworth does-it-matter matter doe Most of the things one worries about never happen. Patricia Wentworth happens worry Things you can't understand are always the hardest to bear. To know why is the first step to consolation. Patricia Wentworth bears steps firsts When you've just made the most complete fool of yourself, you feel the need of a specially high horse to ride. Patricia Wentworth horse pride needs I used to do miserably in English literature, which I thought was a sign of moral turpitude. As I look back on it, I think it was rather to my credit. The notion of actually putting writers' words into other words is quite ridiculous because why bother if writers mean what they mean, and if they don't, why read them? There is, I suppose, a case for studying literary works in depth, but I don't quite know what 'in depth' means unless you read a paragraph over and over again. Patricia Wentworth education mean thinking The fact is, people who don't have any misfortunes are very irritating to their neighbours. No opportunities for popping in with condolences and new-laid eggs. No visits to the afflicted. No opportunities for the milk of human kindness to flow. Naturally it doesn't. Patricia Wentworth condolences kindness opportunity Any road is bound to arrive somewhere if you follow it far enough Patricia Wentworth bounds ifs enough One cannot withdraw from the life of the community. Injury to one member of it cannot fail to be the concern of all. Patricia Wentworth injury failing community A lie that is half a truth is ever the hardest to fight. Patricia Wentworth fighting half lying It is always better to say too little than too much. Patricia Wentworth too-much littles talking Nobody likes to be accused of a virtue. Patricia Wentworth accused virtue likes The fact is, for most of us, what happens to ourselves is so much more important than what happens to other people that the smallest mote in our own eye will prevent us from being unduly harrowed by someone else's beam. Patricia Wentworth important eye people Being in a rage was rather like being out in a thunderstorm - you couldn't hear yourself think. Patricia Wentworth rage anger thinking it isn't good tactics to ask for something that you know will be refused. Patricia Wentworth tactics favors knows When there is too much to say it is easier to say nothing at all. Patricia Wentworth easier too-much talking There is a country proverb which says, 'If you don't trouble trouble - trouble won't trouble you. Patricia Wentworth trouble ifs country The most trying moments in human experience were those in which there was nothing to be done except to wait. Patricia Wentworth done waiting trying ... the things that happened in your body were never as bad as the things that happened in your mind. Patricia Wentworth happened body mind
