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41 " Agatha longed to forget about the whole thing and go home, go to bed and cuddle up to her cats. "
― M.C. Beaton , A Spoonful of Poison (Agatha Raisin, #19)
42 " Aye, it’s an unfair world when you think of it. If that man had been a woman, he’d have been called a harlot! "
― M.C. Beaton , Death of a Cad (Hamish Macbeth, #2)
43 " She had not yet learned the hard lesson that women who love themselves too much are rarely loved by anyone else. "
44 " She doesn’t have a conscience.” “Come on. We all have one.” “No, some are born without one. It’s always everyone else’s fault.” “I’ll get Jimmy Anderson onto "
― M.C. Beaton , Death of a Celebrity (Hamish Macbeth, #17)
45 " I don't like children, said Lord Pendlebury petulantly. 'Too many of them. Go away. "
― M.C. Beaton , The Vicious Vet (Agatha Raisin, #2)
46 " A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. —Washington Irving "
― M.C. Beaton , Death of a Nag (Hamish Macbeth, #11)
47 " Then as the earth’s inner, narrow crooked lanes Do purge salt waters’ fretful tears away —John Donne "
― M.C. Beaton , Introducing Hamish Macbeth: Mysteries #1-3: Death of a Gossip, Death of a Cad, and Death of an Outsider Omnibus (A Hamish Macbeth Mystery)
48 " I’ll feed the cats and give them some food. "
― M.C. Beaton , Agatha Raisin and the Fairies of Fryfam (Agatha Raisin, #10)
49 " Marriage is like life in this—that it is a field of battle, and not a bed of roses. —Robert Louis Stevenson "
― M.C. Beaton , Death of a Ghost (Hamish Macbeth, #32)
50 " Scotland had murdered sleep. "
51 " Ellie lowered her voice dramatically. “She was a black witch. I can still hear her dreadful laughter as I ran away.” Elspeth translated this as—I said something silly and she began to laugh and I was offended. "
― M.C. Beaton , Death of a Witch (Hamish Macbeth, #24)
52 " When love grows diseas’d, the best thing we can do is put it to a violent death; I cannot endure the torture of a lingring and consumptive passion. —Sir George Etherege "
― M.C. Beaton , Death of a Macho Man (Hamish Macbeth, #12)
53 " We forgive beauty such a lot, thought Agatha suddenly. If he was a little balding man with thick glasses, I might get a bit tetchy. "
54 " The trouble with being a policeman in a small, normally law-abiding village was that you did not strike fear or terror into the heart of anyone. "
― M.C. Beaton , Death of a Perfect Wife (Hamish Macbeth, #4)
55 " The best laid schemes o’ mice and men, "
― M.C. Beaton , Death of an Honest Man (Hamish Macbeth #33)
56 " It helps in public relations to have a certain amount of charm and Agatha had none. "
― M.C. Beaton , Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death; The Vicious Vet; The Potted Gardener.
57 " We’re supposed to get a whiff as we walk past you, not when we drive past you at sixty miles an hour. "
― M.C. Beaton , Hiss and Hers (Agatha Raisin, #23)
58 " They slipped quietly away while Heather continued her lecture, her eyes half-closed so that she could better enjoy the sound of her own voice, which went on and on. "
― M.C. Beaton , Death of a Snob (Hamish Macbeth, #6)
59 " Always works a treat. All these old stoves are raging alcoholics. "
― M.C. Beaton , Agatha Raisin and the Witches' Tree (Agatha Raisin #28)
60 " Agatha doubled her rates and then said, “Of course, I halve them for a friend. "