Patricia Moyes famous quotes

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I simply cannot understand the passion that some people have for making themselves thoroughly uncomfortable and then boasting about it afterwards.
-- Patricia Moyes

#Women #Passion #People
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.
-- Patricia Moyes

#Suicide #Revenge #Leaving
Brutality is sometimes easier to endure than ridicule.
-- Patricia Moyes

#Brutality #Sometimes #Easier
Angry and frustrated, the journalists set about making bricks without straw ...
-- Patricia Moyes

#Frustrated #Bricks #Journalism
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.
-- Patricia Moyes

#Interesting #Events #Retrospect
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.
-- Patricia Moyes

#Cat #Winning #Talking
I do not believe that it is possible to teach a cat to obey; that is contrary to his nature.
-- Patricia Moyes

#Believe #Cat #Teach
Cats of great personality are always found in association with sensitive, cat-conscious people; it is a two-way process of immense mutual benefit.
-- Patricia Moyes

#Cat #Two #People
I can never pass a cat in the street without greeting it and exchanging a few words, and the cat invariably replies.
-- Patricia Moyes

#Cat #Few Words #Greetings
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.
-- Patricia Moyes

#Country #Autumn #Garden
one doesn't really grow older; it's just that other people grow younger.
-- Patricia Moyes

#People #Age #Grows
The buildings ... had suffered the inevitable shrinkage of places revisited ...
-- Patricia Moyes

#Building #Inevitable

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