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Top 25 Mary Wesley Quotes (2025 Update)

Mary Wesley Quote: “Writing Part of the Scenery has been a very different experience. I have been reminded of people and events, real and imaginary which have been part of my life. This book is a celebration of the land which means so much to me.”

1. “Writing Part of the Scenery has been a very different experience. I have been reminded of people and events, real and imaginary which have been part of my life. This book is a celebration of the land which means so much to me.”

— Mary Wesley

Mary Wesley Quote: “I never really know the title of a book until it’s finished.”

2. “I never really know the title of a book until it’s finished.”

— Mary Wesley

Mary Wesley Quote: “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.”

3. “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.”

— Mary Wesley

Mary Wesley Quote: “Rebecca is an example of how not to manage men. The rules of the game never change, it requires subtlety.”

4. “Rebecca is an example of how not to manage men. The rules of the game never change, it requires subtlety.”

— Mary Wesley

Mary Wesley Quote: “I remember the evacuee children from towns and cities throwing stones at the farm animals. When we explained that if you did that you wouldnt have any milk, meat or eggs, they soon learned to respect the animals.”

5. “I remember the evacuee children from towns and cities throwing stones at the farm animals. When we explained that if you did that you wouldnt have any milk, meat or eggs, they soon learned to respect the animals.”

— Mary Wesley

Mary Wesley Quote: “My father was a soldier and my mother was a great mover. She once counted up how many places she had lived in during the first 25 years of her marriage and it came to 20.”

6. “My father was a soldier and my mother was a great mover. She once counted up how many places she had lived in during the first 25 years of her marriage and it came to 20.”

— Mary Wesley

Mary Wesley Quote: “In my eighties, my best friends are in their fifties, and I have many friends at university. It keeps one young, and up with the vocabulary. That’s terribly important, especially for a writer.”

7. “In my eighties, my best friends are in their fifties, and I have many friends at university. It keeps one young, and up with the vocabulary. That’s terribly important, especially for a writer.”

— Mary Wesley

Mary Wesley Quote: “Of course risk-taking does not always pay off, but it’s a lot of fun!”

8. “Of course risk-taking does not always pay off, but it’s a lot of fun!”

— Mary Wesley

Mary Wesley Quote: “Twenty years ago, I was living in a lovely cottage on the edge of Dartmoor but I couldn’t afford to run a car.”

9. “Twenty years ago, I was living in a lovely cottage on the edge of Dartmoor but I couldn’t afford to run a car.”

— Mary Wesley

Mary Wesley Quote: “People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier.”

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

— Mary Wesley

Mary Wesley Quote: “Imagination which comes into play in falling in love is different from any other. Certainly in my case, and I’ve fallen in love all my life, one imagines the person to be as you want them to be. They frequently turn out to be someone different, for better or worse.”

11. “Imagination which comes into play in falling in love is different from any other. Certainly in my case, and I’ve fallen in love all my life, one imagines the person to be as you want them to be. They frequently turn out to be someone different, for better or worse.”

— Mary Wesley

Mary Wesley Quote: “Women’s courage is rather different from men’s. The fact that women have to bring up children and look after husbands makes them braver at facing long-term issues, such as illness. Men are more immediately courageous. Lots of people are brave in battle.”

12. “Women’s courage is rather different from men’s. The fact that women have to bring up children and look after husbands makes them braver at facing long-term issues, such as illness. Men are more immediately courageous. Lots of people are brave in battle.”

— Mary Wesley

Mary Wesley Quote: “It seemed sensible to move to a market town where I could walk everywhere.”

13. “It seemed sensible to move to a market town where I could walk everywhere.”

— Mary Wesley

Mary Wesley Quote: “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.”

14. “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.”

— Mary Wesley

Mary Wesley Quote: “We all lie to each other, present some sort of front.”

15. “We all lie to each other, present some sort of front.”

— Mary Wesley

Mary Wesley Quote: “We’re all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on learning.”

16. “We’re all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on learning.”

— Mary Wesley

Mary Wesley Quote: “I found out only recently that we were making an index of enemy code signs.”

17. “I found out only recently that we were making an index of enemy code signs.”

— Mary Wesley

Mary Wesley Quote: “They may turn out to be a great disappointment, or perhaps they may be full of enchanting surprises.”

18. “They may turn out to be a great disappointment, or perhaps they may be full of enchanting surprises.”

— Mary Wesley

Mary Wesley Quote: “I was sent to a finishing school, which didn’t last long when mother found out how badly chaperoned we were. Then I ‘came out’ before going to a domestic science school.”

19. “I was sent to a finishing school, which didn’t last long when mother found out how badly chaperoned we were. Then I ‘came out’ before going to a domestic science school.”

— Mary Wesley

Mary Wesley Quote: “My first husband would never make up his mind in less than five years, so I used to get him to think that whatever course of action needed to be taken was his idea. Then he’d go right ahead.”

20. “My first husband would never make up his mind in less than five years, so I used to get him to think that whatever course of action needed to be taken was his idea. Then he’d go right ahead.”

— Mary Wesley

Mary Wesley Quote: “I don’t write for any particular kind of person.”

21. “I don’t write for any particular kind of person.”

— Mary Wesley

Mary Wesley Quote: “I always read that men don’t like intelligent girls, but I’ve always found the reverse.”

22. “I always read that men don’t like intelligent girls, but I’ve always found the reverse.”

— Mary Wesley

Mary Wesley Quote: “Looking back, I understand that I was teaching myself to write.”

23. “Looking back, I understand that I was teaching myself to write.”

— Mary Wesley

Mary Wesley Quote: “I have a garden, and I’m passionately interested in young people.”

24. “I have a garden, and I’m passionately interested in young people.”

— Mary Wesley

Mary Wesley Quote: “I have deliberately left Sylvester and Julia’s appearances to the reader’s imagination.”

25. “I have deliberately left Sylvester and Julia’s appearances to the reader’s imagination.”

— Mary Wesley

Mary Wesley Quote: “Each marriage has to be judged separately, and we never know what’s going on in another person’s marriage.”

26. “Each marriage has to be judged separately, and we never know what’s going on in another person’s marriage.”

— Mary Wesley

Mary Wesley Quote: “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.”

27. “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.”

— Mary Wesley

Mary Wesley Quote: “Unimaginative people are spared quite a lot.”

28. “Unimaginative people are spared quite a lot.”

— Mary Wesley

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