I have always wanted to write in such a way that will make people think, Why, I've always thought that but never found the words for it.

- Pamela Hansford Johnson

The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire.

- Pamela Hansford Johnson

You slam a politician, you make out he's the devil, with horns and hoofs. But his wife loves him, and so did all his mistresses.

- Pamela Hansford Johnson

Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.

- Pamela Hansford Johnson

I hated the bangs in the war: I always felt a silent war would be more tolerable.

- Pamela Hansford Johnson

There are few things more disturbing than to find, in somebody we detest, a moral quality which seems to us demonstrably superior to anything we ours…

- Pamela Hansford Johnson

Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like; but never believe he is being on the level with you.

- Pamela Hansford Johnson

We demand that people should be true to the pictures we have of them, no matter how repulsive those pictures may be: we prefer the true portrait (as …

- Pamela Hansford Johnson

the most deeply moving element in the contemplation of beauty is the element of loss. We desire to hold; but the sunset melts into the night, and the…

- Pamela Hansford Johnson