Quotes from Marjorie Bowen

Even a fool can deceive a man - if he be a bigger fool than himself.

What a rope of sand we are without a leader.

Flattery is so necessary to all of us that we flatter one another to be flattered in return

He who don't like me greasy shan't have me nice.

They were all people whom I either knew too well or whom I didn't wish to know at all...

mouth and the weight of dust heavy in his hand.

Yet this little creature, of so mean an origin that she could not write her name, shone with an amiable lustre amid the corruptions and profanities of a Court, the scandal of her position and the enervation of luxury and pleasure — and this lustre she added to her generosity, her kindness and her womanly tenderness.

Some things it is not decent to write of the dead, or prudent to write of the living.