Of course risk-taking does not always pay off, but it's a lot of fun! Mary Wesley More Quotes by Mary Wesley More Quotes From Mary Wesley Unimaginative people are spared quite a lot. Mary Wesley people Unimaginative people are spared quite a lot. They're often much happier, because they don't go through all the variety of conceptions of the person they love. Mary Wesley conceptionpersonspeople We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on learning. Mary Wesley growing-upchildrenthinking I always read that men don't like intelligent girls, but I've always found the reverse. Mary Wesley intelligentgirlmen My father was a soldier and my mother was a great mover. She once counted up how many places she had lived in during the first 25 years of her marriage and it came to 20. Mary Wesley marriagemotherfather We all lie to each other, present some sort of front. Mary Wesley frontslying Women's courage is rather different from men's. The fact that women have to bring up children and look after husbands makes them braver at facing long-term issues, such as illness. Men are more immediately courageous. Lots of people are brave in battle. Mary Wesley husbandcouragechildren My first husband would never make up his mind in less than five years, so I used to get him to think that whatever course of action needed to be taken was his idea. Then he'd go right ahead. Mary Wesley husbandtakenthinking Rebecca is an example of how not to manage men. The rules of the game never change, it requires subtlety. Mary Wesley changegamesmen In my eighties, my best friends are in their fifties, and I have many friends at university. It keeps one young, and up with the vocabulary. That's terribly important, especially for a writer. Mary Wesley friendsvocabularyimportant I have deliberately left Sylvester and Julia's appearances to the reader's imagination. Mary Wesley readerappearanceimagination Each marriage has to be judged separately, and we never know what's going on in another person's marriage. Mary Wesley marriagepersonsknows I was sent to a finishing school, which didn't last long when mother found out how badly chaperoned we were. Then I 'came out' before going to a domestic science school. Mary Wesley motherscienceschool I don't write for any particular kind of person. Mary Wesley kindpersonswriting A lot of people stop short. They don't actually die but they say, 'Right I'm old, and I'm going to retire,' and then they dwindle into nothing. They go off to Florida and become jolly boring. Mary Wesley floridaboringpeople They may turn out to be a great disappointment, or perhaps they may be full of enchanting surprises. Mary Wesley surprisedisappointmentmay Twenty years ago, I was living in a lovely cottage on the edge of Dartmoor but I couldn't afford to run a car. Mary Wesley carrunningyears I never really know the title of a book until it's finished. Mary Wesley titlesknowsbook I have a garden, and I'm passionately interested in young people. Mary Wesley gardenyoungpeople I remember the evacuee children from towns and cities throwing stones at the farm animals. When we explained that if you did that you wouldnt have any milk, meat or eggs, they soon learned to respect the animals. Mary Wesley respectanimalchildren
