Mary Wesley People Quotations

People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier.

A lot of people stop short. They don't actually die but they say, 'Right I'm old, and I'm going to retire,' and then they dwindle into nothing. They go off to Florida and become jolly boring.

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.

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.

I have a garden, and I'm passionately interested in young people.

Unimaginative people are spared quite a lot.