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1 " My darling, why didn't you say so before? You know, I sometimes wonder," she added, turning to Ann, "what it would be like to have no children.""Jolly dull, " said John. "you'd be bored stiff. What would you do all day?""Well I could read a little," said Mrs Gayford, rather vaguely, "really good books, you know, and the Times Literary Supplement. I used to be very fond of it. "
― Margery Sharp , Rhododendron Pie
2 " If he's a poet, why's he in jail?" demanded a suspicious voice. Madam Chairwoman shrugged velvet shoulders. "Perhaps he writes free verse," she suggested cunningly. A stir of approval answered her. Mice are all for people being free, so that they too can be freed form their eternal task of cheering prisoners--so that they can stay snug at home, nibbling the family cheese, instead of sleeping out in damp straw on a diet of stale bread. "
― Margery Sharp , The Rescuers (The Rescuers, #1)
3 " If you had a smattering of education you would realize that perfection of form can give validity to any sentiment, however preposterous. "
― Margery Sharp , Cluny Brown
4 " Meself I like a breath of air before I go to bed, same as I like a bite o' cheese or something before I take me teeth out. "
― Margery Sharp , The Flowering Thorn
5 " We pray, give us this day our daily bread—not our daily caneton à la presse. Luxury should be the détente after work, the riot after abstinence, one should not become used to it. "
6 " Life wasn’t a shadow. It was a beautiful, warm, many-voiced reality, full of omnibuses and orchestras and the smell of earth after rain. "
7 " So the letters took a long time to get there, and the replies even longer to get back, and all the news was out of date; and this gave his correspondence a peculiar timeless quality which was very soothing. "
