If she hasn't learned to appreciate my sterling character and spectacular good looks by this time, it's not likely she will.
I have always been of the opinion that your successes are due not so much to your medical skill as your dogged determination. No one would have the audacity to die when you are doctoring them.
Emerson,' I said, choosing my words with care, 'it is a sheer drop from the cleft down to the base of the cliff. If you are bent on breaking your arm or your leg or your neck or all three, find a plac...
Can't you ever stop joking?No, why should I? Laughter is one of the two things that make life worthwhile. Aren't you going to ask what the other one is?
As the Egyptians say, Ramses can hear a whisper across the Nile.
My nature does not lend itself to the meekness required of a wife in our society. I could not endure a man who would let himself be ruled by me, and I would not endure a man who tried to rule me.
The cat required far less attendance than a human child, which is one of the reasons why spinster ladies prefer felines to babies.
The approval of a cat cannot but flatter the recipient.
Nothing can be more infuriating than being forgiven over and over again.
Men are frail creatures, of course; one does not expect them to exhibit the steadfastness of women.
Marriage, in my view, should be a balanced stalemate between equal adversaries.
His lips parted, but long years of experience with Ramses, and to some extent, Emerson, had taught me how to turn a conversation into a monologue.
Any man with a grain of sense knows that marriage is the only way, these days, to acquire a full-time maid who works twenty-five hours a day, with no time off and no pay except room and board. (p9)
What a nice neat deep trench,' I said. 'Er - should Nefret be down in it?''She thought she saw a skull,' Ramses said. 'You know how she is about bones.
There was no warning, not even a knock. The door flew open, and he forgot his present aches and pains in anticipation of what lay in store. The figure that stood in the door was not that of an enemy....
There has been an accident,’ I explained to Abdullah, who was staring at Nemo’s bloody sleeve. ‘Please take Ali or Hassan and go at once to the ridge behind the tents. You will find a dead body there....
The way to get on with a cat is to treat it as an equal - or even better, as the superior it knows itself to be.
The sun is born again from the womb of night, he said. See how the light spreads, remaking the world.
The secret of happiness is to enjoy the moment, without allowing unhappy memories or fear of the future to shadow the shining present.
The current fashions are impractical for an active person. Skirts so tight one must toddle like an infant, bodices boned so firmly it is impossible to draw a deep breath…. And bustles! Of all the idio...