Maeve's Times Quotes

“2. Men like women without make-up. They don’t. They like extremely well and carefully made-up women whose skin has that expensive cultured look which comes from three hours at the dressing table. A woman who is really without make-up would frighten them to death. They regard blotches as eczema, and uneven colouring as a sign of tertiary syphilis.”
― Maeve Binchy, Maeve's Times: In Her Own Words

“What's a Sinbad?”
― Maeve Binchy, Maeve's Times

“But you've lost so much weight. You've lost stones and stones. Little person! Tiny person! How did you do it?'
'Well, it's not all that much and I ...' She didn't get an inning.
'But you're a tiny person; you used to be a huge, huge person. Remember those great jowls you had? Real jowls, they were darling, and look at you now. A little person. How super. No jowls. Don't ever let it creep on again, will you?'
I thought about it for a long time. Would the little person, the tiny jowl-less person like all this praise? Was it the reward for the diet, the self-control, the exercise? Or might she resent the spotlight and the attention of 30 people beaming on her?”
― Maeve Binchy, Maeve's Times

“Turkish Bath”
― Maeve Binchy, Maeve's Times: In Her Own Words