Quotes from Pamela Hansford Johnson

The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire.

You slam a politician, you make out he's the devil, with horns and hoofs. But his wife loves him, and so did all his mistresses.

I hated the bangs in the war: I always felt a silent war would be more tolerable.

We demand that people should be true to the pictures we have of them, no matter how repulsive those pictures may be: we prefer the true portrait in all its homogeneity, to one with a detail added which refuses to fit in.

Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.

Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like; but never believe he is being on the level with you.

Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like; but never believe he is being on the level with you.

The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire.

The trouble with you is,' she said, half-smiling, 'that you're such an optimist. You really believe that if things are hopelessly bad, then they must improve. What nonsense it is! Things can be bad, and stay bad. And they can be endured... Can't you see that we've all got to make the best of things as they are?

selfishness brings with it a surprising power of invention, it tends to create its own ontology.

He had the nervous, self-deprecating air of a man with enough money to have a bad conscience about it. His