Quotes from M.C. Beaton

Isn't it sad that we only get upset about nasty things happening to people and places if television decides we should?

religion's for those who believe in hell and a spiritual belief is for those who've been there.

I never wanted to be a literary writer. I wanted to be an entertainer. All I wanted was to give what a lot of writers had given me: a good time on a bad day.

Okay, I'm lazy. But being lazy is a talent. Sometimes it takes an awful lot of work.

What sinks of iniquity these little villages can be.

No one could remain an atheist with larks around, he thought dreamily.

Like most thin-skinned people who have been snubbed, he could not leave the snubbers alone.

He fished steadily, trying to fight down a dragging, aching sense of loss, wondering how one's brain should know all the sensible answers while one's emotions longed for the unattainable.

The other diners studied him with the polite frozen smiles the English use for threatening behaviour.

Clever plastic surgery can restore an appearance of youth, but nothing changes the expression of age and experience in the eyes.

Christmas had done its usual merry work of setting husband against wife, relative against relative, and spreading bad will among men in general.

Ah, when love dies, women lose two and a half inches in height.

That woman has halitosis of the soul.

One day a baking competition, another a murder.

Husbands are always angry, that's their nature. And the nature of us women is not to pay a blind bit of notice.

I am not in the mood to have my underwear examined.

How odd that people could be so ugly, not particularly because of appearence, but because of the atmosphere of judgemental bad temper and discontent they carried around with them.

People never realize that love is indeed blind. They feel like a soul mate of the loved one. No awful loneliness of spirit. Two against the world. So they marry, and what happens? After a certain time, they look across the breakfast table and find they are looking at a stranger.

Clever plastic surgery can restore an appearance of youth, but nothing changes the expression of age and experience in the eyes.