Isn't it sad that we only get upset about nasty things happening to people and places if television decides we should?

- M.C. Beaton

I never wanted to be a literary writer. I wanted to be an entertainer. All I wanted was to give what a lot of writers had given me: a good time on a …

- M.C. Beaton

the whistle of the old steam trains ... could conjure up visions of bleak distances with one solitary wail.

- M.C. Beaton

That was the trouble with so many reality programmes on television - everyone wanted fame these days without necessarily working at anything to achie…

- M.C. Beaton

A lady is as young as the gentleman she feels," said Roy and cackled happily.

- M.C. Beaton

A library is a palace of dreams.

- M.C. Beaton

Clever plastic surgery can restore an appearance of youth, but nothing changes the expression of age and experience in the eyes.

- M.C. Beaton

Ah, when love dies, women lose two and a half inches in height.

- M.C. Beaton

Do you know why more people don't sober up? Because they don't wear their livers on the outside. If everyone wore their liver on their forehead, say,…

- M.C. Beaton