Cashelmara Quotes

“It’s not enough to do one’s best. One should do what one knows to be right”
― Susan Howatch, Cashelmara

“The only side I had to take was my own”
― Susan Howatch, Cashelmara

“Everyone was interchangeable. Black and white no longer existed”
― Susan Howatch, Cashelmara

“the most important thing of all was that I should be myself. “If you try to be someone other than yourself you’ll never be happy,” he had said. “You’ve got to be honest with yourself so that you can be honest with other people.”
― Susan Howatch, Cashelmara

“It was the beauty of a thousand yesterdays and perhaps of a thousand tomorrows, timeless Cashelmara, geometrically perfect, splendidly stark”
― Susan Howatch, Cashelmara

“It was the past, the uncomplicated past seen far away at the end of the golden corridor of nostalgia”
― Susan Howatch, Cashelmara

“They say that even now, despite all the reform, it’s only a question of knowing the right people and having a bit of money to spend on the election.”
― Susan Howatch, Cashelmara

“No race on earth is as clever at being strangers as the British. They wrap themselves in formality, they withdraw behind veil after veil of exquisite politeness, they hide cunningly behind a bewildering array of carefully chosen façades—”
― Susan Howatch, Cashelmara

“before he died Francis’ father had ordered that the gutters and gargoyles be painted gold, and the innovation had enabled the house to achieve a new and unbelievable pitch of vulgarity. I am incapable of further description; all I can add is that Greek ideas had married Gothic affectations in the architectural plans, and the marriage had not been a happy one.”
― Susan Howatch, Cashelmara