British - Novelist | June 24, 1912 - December 30, 2002
Imagination which comes into play in falling in love is different from any other. Certainly in my case, and I've fallen in love all my life, one imagines the person to be as you want them to be. They frequently turn out to be someone different, for better or worse.
Mary Wesley
LifeLoveImaginationLove IsBetter
In my eighties, my best friends are in their fifties, and I have many friends at university. It keeps one young, and up with the vocabulary. That's terribly important, especially for a writer.
BestFriendsImportantYoungUp
It seemed sensible to move to a market town where I could walk everywhere.
WalkWhereMoveMarketSensible
It was pretty awful for us children because we never really knew the local children. Mother was keen for us to learn languages, so our travels took us to France and Italy, as well as the West Country.
MotherChildrenLearnCountryNever
My father was a soldier and my mother was a great mover. She once counted up how many places she had lived in during the first 25 years of her marriage and it came to 20.
MarriageFatherMotherGreatSheUp
My first husband would never make up his mind in less than five years, so I used to get him to think that whatever course of action needed to be taken was his idea. Then he'd go right ahead.
MindActionHusbandThinkGoAhead
Of course risk-taking does not always pay off, but it's a lot of fun!
FunAlwaysPayOffCourseDoes
People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier.
WorkMarriagePeopleDivorceTry
Rebecca is an example of how not to manage men. The rules of the game never change, it requires subtlety.
ChangeMenGameRulesNeverExample
That image of the countryside being a threatening place still exists. People continue to resist the challenge of learning about aspects of life they don't understand.
LifeLearningChallengePeoplePlace
Twenty years ago, I was living in a lovely cottage on the edge of Dartmoor but I couldn't afford to run a car.
CarEdgeLivingRunLovelyYears
Unimaginative people are spared quite a lot. They're often much happier, because they don't go through all the variety of conceptions of the person they love.
LovePeoplePersonGoVarietyMuch
Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Mary Wesley quotes