Maughon Timothy Quotes & Sayings

You see, the Foreign Service of the United States has grown so unbelievably in the last twenty years, and the requirements for admission are so high, and yet an awful lot of the work, I'd say fully 50-percent of the work in the Foreign Service abroad, is really routine work. All this is something that no one has licked ... You get a certain amount of discontent. It's bad for morale. — Charles E. Bohlen

My life was never intended to be one long slow descent into respectability. — Christopher Fowler

This I have known since first I trod the path - a time comes when there is only despair, when you seek to tear the veil from the shrine, and you cry out to her and know that she will not answer because she is not there, because she was never there, there is no Goddess but only yourself, and you are alone in the mockery of echoes from an empty shrine ... There is no one there, there — Marion Zimmer Bradley

If at first you don't succeed--write more! — N.B. Williams

We know when we have had enough of a friend, and we know when a friend has had enough of us. The first truth is no more palatable than the second. — Agnes Repplier

...shame spreads through his body like a drop of red dye in water. — Zak Ebrahim

I still love to play chess. So I do not even spend a minute on the possibility to step back. — Anatoly Karpov

There's no better friend than a sister ... — Mary Engelbreit

The purpose of fiction is not to make people seem nice. What makes anyone think people are nice? Look around you! — Elizabeth Strout

He wasn't a pretty boy, his nose was crooked and his grin lopsided, but he had that square-jawed, salt-of-the-earth handsome look that made a girl think of loose-hipped cowboys and demanding Scottish Lairds. And speaking of Scottish Lairds, old mate was a redhead. Usually gingers weren't her scene but this guy's hair was the rich coppery-auburn of a fox's pelt. It gleamed like rose gold under the floodlights, his short beard the exact colour as the stuff on his head. Big Red was doing it for her. Big time. And apparently, the feeling was mutual. — Eve Dangerfield