Barbara Metzger > Quotes

“No woman should have as her life’s mate a man who has mated with half the females in England, who brings home diseases and litters the countryside with his butter stamps. It’s wrong.”
― Barbara Metzger, Snowdrops and Scandalbroth

“Very well. I will take you to Oxford. It might be an educational opportunity at that. You can see the college your father attended, and so might aspire to those lofty towers of erudition and academia yourself.” “What does he mean?” Billy asked his brother. “He means we can go.”
― Barbara Metzger, Wedded Bliss

“They both knew there was no tonic like matchmaking to cure a mother”
― Barbara Metzger, The Duel

“It is the same God, no? Le bon Dieu can find me when He wants me, I am sure.”
― Barbara Metzger, Rake's Ransom

“If ever a man existed who had every right to be puffed up with his own conceit, Rosellen thought, it was Wynn in evening clothes.”
― Barbara Metzger, Miss Lockharte's Letters