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Ten of My Favorite Patricia Wentworth Quotes
Quotes, who doesn’t love a good quote? This series of articles we look at Top 10 Famous Quotes by Author Patricia Wentworth, author quotes are always a challenge and fun to pick, with Patricia Wentworth you will find my Ten favorites of Patricia Wentworth’s quotes.
About Patricia Wentworth
Patricia Wentworth was a British crime fiction writer born Dora Amy Elles.
She attended Blackheath High School in London and a private school. After her first husband, George F. Dillon, died in 1906, she settled in Camberley, Surrey. In 1920, she married George Oliver Turnbull and they had one daughter.
In 1928, she published her first whodunnit featuring Miss Silver, and the last one was published in 1961, the year of her death.
A retired governess turned private detective, Miss Silver, is sometimes compared to Jane Marple, the elderly detective created by Agatha Christie. As one of Scotland Yard’s most powerful detectives, she relies heavily on Inspector Frank Abbott and often quotes Tennyson’s poetry.
In addition to that series, Wentworth wrote 34 other books
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Popular Quotes
“Henry, for heaven’s sake! You can’t propose when I’m fainting!”
― Patricia Wentworth, Miss Silver Comes to Stay
“I think it is right that you should know I am here in the capacity of a private enquiry agent.”
If she had announced that she was there in the capacity of a Fairy Godmother or of First Murderer, she could hardly have surprised him more. In fact, the Fairy Godmother would have seemed quite appropriate by comparison.”
― Patricia Wentworth, The Silent Pool
“I told you she had an inconsequent mind. That’s putting it much too mildly. When it comes to anything like evidence, she hasn’t really got a mind at all – she just dives into a sort of lumber-room and brings out odds and ends.”
― Patricia Wentworth, The Case of William Smith
“The fact is, for most of us, what happens to ourselves is so much more important than what happens to other people that the smallest mote in our own eye will prevent us from being unduly harrowed by someone else’s beam.”
― Patricia Wentworth, Eternity Ring
“Men could be drunk with pride, with passion, or with power. They could be drunken with hatred, or with the lust of gain.”
― Patricia Wentworth, Vanishing Point
“Her name is Maud Silver. Louisa says she has solved many difficult cases besides being an extremely expert knitter.”
― Patricia Wentworth, The Benevent Treasure
“There are moments when everyone in the world is the friend of your heart and you must share its joy.”
― Patricia Wentworth, The Case Is Closed
“She was music, poetry, and the enchantment which lies just over the edge of thought.”
― Patricia Wentworth, The Case of William Smith
“She moved like clouds, like water, like anything lovely and effortless and free.”
― Patricia Wentworth, The Case of William Smith
“I shall want heaps and heaps of tea. The blow has driven me to drink.”
― Patricia Wentworth, Grey Mask
10 Famous Quotes by Author Patricia Wentworth
So there you have it my Ten favorite quotes by Patricia Wentworth, please comment below and share your favorite quotes by the fantastic author Patricia Wentworth. Furthermore, if you find any Authors not covered for there, top 10 quotes let me know and I will review their works and find some of their best quotes as has been done here for Patricia Wentworth.
One Final Bonus – Patricia Wentworth Quote
“She was a little bit of a thing with a light untidy fluff of hair and a nose which went pink in moments of emotion. It was pink now and it quivered. She dabbed aimlessly at her hair and three of the remaining pins fell out. William stooped to pick them up, and wished he hadn’t. He said he thought he would go to bed, and went.”
― Patricia Wentworth, The Case of William Smith
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