Patricia Moyes
It is often interesting, in retrospect, to consider the trifling causes that lead to great events. A chance encounter, a thoughtless remark - and the tortuous chain reaction of coincidence is set in motion, leading with devious inevitability to some resounding climax.Collection: Interesting
I simply cannot understand the passion that some people have for making themselves thoroughly uncomfortable and then boasting about it afterwards.Collection: Women
Cats of great personality are always found in association with sensitive, cat-conscious people; it is a two-way process of immense mutual benefit.Collection: Cat
Suffolk has something more than the coziness of Kent and Surrey. There is a hint of wildness in its tamed beauty, and the tang of the North Sea is never far away.Collection: Sea
I can never pass a cat in the street without greeting it and exchanging a few words, and the cat invariably replies.Collection: Cat
I do not believe that it is possible to teach a cat to obey; that is contrary to his nature.Collection: Believe
Some brave chrysanthemums still stood in the country gardens, but they looked like bedraggled survivors of a battle, barely able to hold their tattered banners upright. October was at the gates and autumn was in full retreat.Collection: Country
one doesn't really grow older; it's just that other people grow younger.Collection: People
Angry and frustrated, the journalists set about making bricks without straw.Collection: Frustrated
Brutality is sometimes easier to endure than ridicule.Collection: Brutality
suicide can be used as a very cruel weapon, you know. It can be the ultimate revenge, leaving a scar that a living person may carry to the grave.Collection: Suicide
The buildings ... had suffered the inevitable shrinkage of places revisited.Collection: Building
it is perfectly possible to converse with any cat, from prize-winning Siamese to alley tabby. Humans who are slow learners may start with a highly articulate Siamese and progress in time to the more sensitive and difficult business of talking to scared strays. Other people, naturally gifted, can talk to any cat right away.Collection: Cat