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Top 15 Betty MacDonald Quotes (2025 Update)

Betty MacDonald Quote: “I’ll do it because I want to but not because you tell me to!”

1. “I’ll do it because I want to but not because you tell me to!”

— Betty MacDonald

Betty MacDonald Quote: “There’s nothing as cozy as a piece of candy and a book.”

2. “There’s nothing as cozy as a piece of candy and a book.”

— Betty MacDonald

Betty MacDonald Quote: “The coffee was so strong it snarled as it lurched out of the pot.”

3. “The coffee was so strong it snarled as it lurched out of the pot.”

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Betty MacDonald Quote: “In the country Sunday is the day on which you do exactly as much work as you do on other days but feel guilty all the time you are doing it because Sunday is a day of rest.”

4. “In the country Sunday is the day on which you do exactly as much work as you do on other days but feel guilty all the time you are doing it because Sunday is a day of rest.”

— Betty MacDonald

Betty MacDonald Quote: “Mental sunshine makes the mind grow, and perpetual happiness makes human nature a flower garden in bloom.”

5. “Mental sunshine makes the mind grow, and perpetual happiness makes human nature a flower garden in bloom.”

— Betty MacDonald

Betty MacDonald Quote: “Our little room was morbidly quiet and sorrow was heaped in my corner like dirty snow.”

6. “Our little room was morbidly quiet and sorrow was heaped in my corner like dirty snow.”

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Betty MacDonald Quote: “Dare we face the question of just how much of the darkness around us is of our own making?”

7. “Dare we face the question of just how much of the darkness around us is of our own making?”

— Betty MacDonald

Betty MacDonald Quote: “On either side the wild roses, their pink dewy faces turned to the sun, tumbled over the fences, sprawled on the ground and filled the air with their pure summery smell.”

8. “On either side the wild roses, their pink dewy faces turned to the sun, tumbled over the fences, sprawled on the ground and filled the air with their pure summery smell.”

— Betty MacDonald

Betty MacDonald Quote: “Gammy used to say, ‘Too much scrubbing takes the life right out of things.’”

9. “Gammy used to say, ‘Too much scrubbing takes the life right out of things.’”

— Betty MacDonald

Betty MacDonald Quote: “Far off down the road, through the lazily drifting snowflakes, they could hear the merry sound of sleigh bells. Their gay little tinkling flying ahead of the sleigh and lighting up the night with sparks.”

10. “Far off down the road, through the lazily drifting snowflakes, they could hear the merry sound of sleigh bells. Their gay little tinkling flying ahead of the sleigh and lighting up the night with sparks.”

— Betty MacDonald

Betty MacDonald Quote: “I never feel that the things I tell Mrs. Monday are lies. I think that lies are only when you want not to tell the truth. With Mrs. Monday I want to tell the truth but life is easier if I don’t.”

11. “I never feel that the things I tell Mrs. Monday are lies. I think that lies are only when you want not to tell the truth. With Mrs. Monday I want to tell the truth but life is easier if I don’t.”

— Betty MacDonald

Betty MacDonald Quote: “I am neither Christian enough nor charitable enough to like anybody just because he is alive and breathing. I want people to interest or amuse me. I want them fascinating and witty or so dull as to be different. I want them either intellectually stimulating or wonderfully corny; perfectly charming or hundred percent stinker. I like my chosen companions to be distinguishable from the undulating masses and I don’t care how.”

12. “I am neither Christian enough nor charitable enough to like anybody just because he is alive and breathing. I want people to interest or amuse me. I want them fascinating and witty or so dull as to be different. I want them either intellectually stimulating or wonderfully corny; perfectly charming or hundred percent stinker. I like my chosen companions to be distinguishable from the undulating masses and I don’t care how.”

— Betty MacDonald

Betty MacDonald Quote: “In the country, weather is as important as food and sometimes means the difference between life and death.”

13. “In the country, weather is as important as food and sometimes means the difference between life and death.”

— Betty MacDonald

Betty MacDonald Quote: “After splashing icy water on their faces and rubbing them fiery red with one of the rough sweet-smelling towels, they came in and took their places at the big kitchen table. This morning the table wore a bright red-and-white checked cloth and a pot of red geraniums. Mrs. Campbell handed the girls their plates, each with a slice of ham and half of a crisp, tan waffle.”

14. “After splashing icy water on their faces and rubbing them fiery red with one of the rough sweet-smelling towels, they came in and took their places at the big kitchen table. This morning the table wore a bright red-and-white checked cloth and a pot of red geraniums. Mrs. Campbell handed the girls their plates, each with a slice of ham and half of a crisp, tan waffle.”

— Betty MacDonald

Betty MacDonald Quote: “Another female household-hinter gave me a recipe for a big hearty main dish of elbow macaroni, mint jelly, lima beans, mayonnaise and cheese baked until ‘hot and yummy.’ Unless my taste buds are paralyzed, this dish could be baked until hell freezes over and it might get hot but never ’yummy.”

15. “Another female household-hinter gave me a recipe for a big hearty main dish of elbow macaroni, mint jelly, lima beans, mayonnaise and cheese baked until ‘hot and yummy.’ Unless my taste buds are paralyzed, this dish could be baked until hell freezes over and it might get hot but never ’yummy.”

— Betty MacDonald

Betty MacDonald Quote: “Well, whatever you and Nancy decide to be when you grow up, I know that you’ll be happy because you have discovered the comfort and joy of reading.”

16. “Well, whatever you and Nancy decide to be when you grow up, I know that you’ll be happy because you have discovered the comfort and joy of reading.”

— Betty MacDonald

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