A good many established writers seem to have the feeling that some day they are going to be found out, revealed as frauds.

- Patricia Wentworth

I used to do miserably in English literature, which I thought was a sign of moral turpitude. As I look back on it, I think it was rather to my credit…

- Patricia Wentworth

Take things as they come. Take things as they are. What does it matter? There's one end to everything.

- Patricia Wentworth

Love and a cold cannot be hid. It is, I believe, a Spanish proverb.

- Patricia Wentworth

... the things that happened in your body were never as bad as the things that happened in your mind.

- Patricia Wentworth

there are virtues which are very well in the abstract, but which, encountered in the flesh, can be a source of extreme irritation.

- Patricia Wentworth

Emotion which you do not share can become intolerable.

- Patricia Wentworth

It is the man who is sure of himself who disregards the opinion of the world. To be sure is to have power.

- Patricia Wentworth

Most of the things one worries about never happen.

- Patricia Wentworth