Betty MacDonald Quotes
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Our little room was morbidly quiet and sorrow was heaped in my corner like dirty snow.
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I am neither Christian enough nor charitable enough to like anybody just because he is alive and breathing. I want people to interest or amuse me. I want them fascinating and witty or so dul as to be different. I want them either intellectually stimulating or wonderfully corny; perfectly charming or hundred percent stinker. I like my chosen companions to be distinguishable from the undulating masses and I don't care how.
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Gammy used to say, 'Too much scrubbing takes the life right out of things.'
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In the country, weather is as important as food and sometimes means the difference between life and death.
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I'll do it because I want to but not because you tell me to!
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Dare we face the question of just how much of the darkness around us is of our own making?
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Her magic formula for dealing with children is ignoring all faults and accenting tiny virtues. She says, "Instead of telling Tommy day in and day out that he is the naughtiest boy in the United States of America, which could very well be true, take an aspirin and comment on his neatly tied shoes. Almost anybody would rather be known for expert shoe-tying than for kicking the cat." She always tells whiners how charming they are--bullies how brave--bad sports how good--sneaks how honest!
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The coffee was so strong it snarled as it lurched out of the pot.
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In the country Sunday is the day on which you do exactly as much work as you do on other days but feel guilty all the time you are doing it because Sunday is a day of rest.
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There’s nothing as cozy as a piece of candy and a book.
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a grudge will soon rot the pocket you carry it in.
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