Margitta Hanff Quotes & Sayings

One always tends to overpraise a long book because one has got through it — E.M.Foster

Critics play a dangerous game when they denounce the science and law EPA has used to defend clean air for more than 40 years. The American people know better. — Gina McCarthy

It's the strangest thing about this church - it is obsessed with sex, absolutely obsessed. Now, they will say we, with our permissive society and rude jokes, are obsessed. No. We have a healthy attitude. We like it, it's fun, it's jolly; because it's a primary impulse it can be dangerous and dark and difficult.
It's a bit like food in that respect, only even more exciting. The only people who are obsessed with food are anorexics and the morbidly obese, and that in erotic terms is the Catholic Church in a nutshell. — Stephen Fry

Win hearts, and you have all men's hands and purses. — William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley

Opinions are like kittens," he commented. "People are always giving them away. — Elizabeth Bear