M.C. Beaton Quotes

More varied than any landscape was the landscape in the sky, with islands of gold and silver, peninsulas of apricot and rose against a background of many shades of turquoise and azure.

Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.

On close inspection, this device turned out to be a funereal juke box - the result of mixing Lloyd's of London with the principle of the chewing gum dispenser.

All I want is the best of everything and there's very little of that left.

Intelligent and alert, wistful but enthusiastic, frank yet tactful, assured without conceit and tender without sentimentality.

Isn't it sad that we only get upset about nasty things happening to people and places if television decides we should?

The truly fashionable are beyond fashion.

I have the worst ear for criticism, even when I have created a stage set I like, I always hear the woman in the back of the dress circle, who says she doesn't like blue.

the whistle of the old steam trains ... could conjure up visions of bleak distances with one solitary wail.

A library is a palace of dreams.

Miss Marilyn Monroe calls to mind the bouquet of a fireworks display, eliciting from her awed spectators an open-mouthed chorus of ohs and ahs.

After twenty annual visits, I am still surprised each time I return to see this giant asparagus bed of alabaster and rose and green skyscrapers.

Clever plastic surgery can restore an appearance of youth, but nothing changes the expression of age and experience in the eyes.

religion's for those who believe in hell and a spiritual belief is for those who've been there.

Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear of death with the comforting prospect of cash.

I never wanted to be a literary writer. I wanted to be an entertainer. All I wanted was to give what a lot of writers had given me: a good time on a bad day.

That was the trouble with so many reality programmes on television - everyone wanted fame these days without necessarily working at anything to achieve it.

Okay, I'm lazy. But being lazy is a talent. Sometimes it takes an awful lot of work.

A lady is as young as the gentleman she feels," said Roy and cackled happily.

I can't afford a whole new set of enemies.

What is elegance? Soap and water!

Love is someone you can be silly with

San Francisco is perhaps the most European of all American cities

Never in the history of fashion has so little material been raised so high to reveal so much that needs to be covered so badly.

I was told I make intelligent comics, and then I made a comic about a horse that pooped.

[He stared into the camera] like some sort of an animal gazing from across the back of its sty. (On Winston Churchill)

I want to make photographs of very elegant women taking the lipstick off their teeth.

Ah, when love dies, women lose two and a half inches in height.

Working at home is hard. It tends to give you bad habits. It feels more like you're going to work when you get up in the morning and leave your house and go somewhere.

A lot of the ways that I like to approach comic books, or anything like that, is not just the book itself, but the fans of it, the readers, the world that exists around it as a cultural object.

I really believe in the power of comics as an educational thing, even ones as silly as mine, because they're a gateway to the actual thing. They're like an easy entrance.

A technical failure that shows some attempt at aesthetic expression is of infinitely more value than uninspired success.

I stopped doing comics because I found the pressure really high to nail it every time. It's really difficult to be creative all the time.

It is often assumed that money is the only motivational factor. Wrong.Fear is also important. Save money. Use fear!

After twenty annual visits I am still surprised each time I return to see this giant asparagus bed of alabaster and rose and green skyscrapers.

what sinks of iniquity these little villages can be

A lady is as young as the gentleman she feels, " said Roy and cackled happily.

Husbands are always angry, that's their nature.And the nature of us women, is not to pay a blind bit of notice.