Anthony Gilbert (author) Quotes

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At our age there's nothing better than conversation with someone who remembers the world you knew when you were a child — and the people in it. It's as good as taking your hair down.

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There's some to whom you can and should turn your soul inside out. It ain't what you say that matters but who you tells it to.

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Marriage is the most delightful of the impermanencies of life.

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'You can't be expected to think of everything,' said George in soothing tones. That's the sort of remark that breaks up marriages.

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Truth, in case you haven't recognized the fact, is what you can persuade the other chap to believe.

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Miss Chisholm never went so far as the mailbox except in the car. She thought that if you were meant to walk you'd be given four feet.

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And after all, they're God's creatures as much as we, and who's to say He doesn't like them a lot better?

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I feel about nature like people who don't like dogs feel about dogs — very nice for other people if they're kept in the right place.

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Parents have a habit of underestimating their children.

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It wasn't so much that he'd smothered his conscience as that he couldn't spell the word.

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Most of the trouble of the world comes from putting things into writing.

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Ignorance, if not bliss, often saves a good deal of time.

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Second-hand impressions are no more to be trusted than second-hand clothes.

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Gin is cheering and wine maketh glad the heart of man, but when you're in a real turmoil there's nothing like a good strong cup of tea.

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Nobody's ever too old for anything, until they think they are.

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Life was no more than a boarding-house where one stayed too short a time to bother much if the hot water system didn't work very well or the beds were lumpy.

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That's the worst of the law. They never do the sensible, straightforward thing. They have to go around corners, like a cat that always takes the longest way home.

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People... believe what they wish to believe, and see what they are expecting to see.

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You know, it's never safe to tread on a female. They have stings in their tails. I suppose Mullins thought of his wife as one of these poor fish he could do anything with, and didn't realise that with the weakest of women you're playing with fire.

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I can't think why women want to marry men at all, they're such fools. I suppose it's because there's nothing else for them to marry.

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I know coincidence has a long arm, but it's not an octopus.

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There are two things everybody thinks they can do — write a book and run a shop.

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Nobody ever notices the host at a party, until the drink runs out.

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You've got two alternatives — ride out the storm or go for a little holiday.' 'And have everyone say I couldn't face the music?' 'Why should you, if you ain't musically inclined?'

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Hell is the place where nothing ever stops and nothing ever changes, a far more alarming conception than the old-fashioned fire and brimstone.

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It's what I've always said, if we were meant to fly we'd be given wings, just like if we were meant to walk we'd have four legs.

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Caution and Conscience were the great twin brethren in his book of life, and the two warred perpetually the one against the other, so that there were premature lines round his eyes, and his mouth never dared smile for fear it gave birth to hopes that would not later be realized.

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Getting a hat is like getting a husband. It doesn't matter how decorative or smart they are if they don't suit you.

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It seems to me you need training for being idle just as much as for a profession. And being alive means more than just not being dead.

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I wonder if we shall ever make a lawyer of you. Don't you know that our first duty is to make things easy for our clients, who are always right, except when they come in conflict with ourselves?

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