Pamela Hansford Johnson famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire.
-- Pamela Hansford Johnson

#Sunset #Sky #Eggs
You slam a politician, you make out he's the devil, with horns and hoofs. But his wife loves him, and so did all his mistresses.
-- Pamela Hansford Johnson

#Sarcastic #Wife #Horny
Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like; but never believe he is being on the level with you.
-- Pamela Hansford Johnson

#Believe #Men #Levels
I hated the bangs in the war: I always felt a silent war would be more tolerable.
-- Pamela Hansford Johnson

#War #Bangs #Would Be
I have always wanted to write in such a way that will make people think, Why, I've always thought that but never found the words for it.
-- Pamela Hansford Johnson

#Writing #Thinking #People
Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.
-- Pamela Hansford Johnson

#Saint #Sainthood
There are few things more disturbing than to find, in somebody we detest, a moral quality which seems to us demonstrably superior to anything we ourselves possess. It augurs not merely an unfairness on the part of creation, but a lack of artistic judgment. Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.
-- Pamela Hansford Johnson

#Quality #Saint #Moral
We demand that people should be true to the pictures we have of them, no matter how repulsive those pictures may be: we prefer the true portrait (as we have conceived it), in all its homogeneity, to one with a detail added which refuses to fit in.
-- Pamela Hansford Johnson

#People #Details #Demand
the most deeply moving element in the contemplation of beauty is the element of loss. We desire to hold; but the sunset melts into the night, and the secret of the painting on the wall can never be the secret of the buyer.
-- Pamela Hansford Johnson

#Beauty #Wall #Moving

My purpose holds to sail beyond the sunset and the baths of all the Western stars until I die.
Just as a musician loves music and not nightingales, and a poet loves poetry and not sunsets, a painter is not primarily a person who responds to figures and landscapes. He is primarily one who loves pictures.
Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.
One who loves Krishna will give Him whatever He wants, and he avoids offering anything which is undesirable or unasked for. Thus, meat, fish and eggs should not be offered to Krishna...Vegetables, grains, fruits, milk and water are the proper foods for human beings and are prescribed by Lord Krishna Himself. Whatever else you eat, can not be offered to Him, since He will not accept it.
There was less than Iâ€™d expected in the rainy-day fund that Mom had kept in the bottom of an underwear drawer in a panty hose egg labeled â€˜DEAD SPIDERS.â€™ As if I hadnâ€™t always known it was there. As if I wouldnâ€™t want to look at dead spiders.
Watch it! It was robbed from other beings so it's HOT 'MERCHANDISE' and it's against the Law... the LAW OF DECENCY!!! Stay within this Law, steer clear of wool/pearl/silk/ fish bone/ fur/ivory/coral/ down/beeswax/honey/ cashmere/ lanolin/ feathers/ camel hair/flesh/milk/ eggs/ fish/ seafood/ other!!!
Columbus's eggs lie around by the hundreds of thousands, but Columbuses are met with less frequency.
Mr. Jesmond made a peculiar noise rather like a hen who has decided to lay an egg and then thought better of it.
I get up between 6:30 and 7 A.M., and my morning routine is always the same: hot water and lemon, eggs on toast and rose oil on the face.
In our dreams we can have our eggs cooked exactly how we want them, but we can't eat them.

Pamela Hansford Johnson famous quotes

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