Quotes from Barbara Metzger

No woman should have as her life's mate a man who has mated with half the females in England, who brings home diseases and litters the countryside with his butter stamps. It's wrong.

Very well. I will take you to Oxford. It might be an educational opportunity at that. You can see the college your father attended, and so might aspire to those lofty towers of erudition and academia yourself." "What does he mean?" Billy asked his brother. "He means we can go.

They both knew there was no tonic like matchmaking to cure a mother

If ever a man existed who had every right to be puffed up with his own conceit, Rosellen thought, it was Wynn in evening clothes.

It is the same God, no? Le bon Dieu can find me when He wants me, I am sure.