Top 96 Quotes by Maeve Binchy

About Maeve Binchy

These are some quotes by Irish author Maeve Binchy Novelist, who lived between May 28, 1940 and June 30, 2012.

I couldn't have children, so that's the bad side. But compared to everything else I have, it's not all that terribly bad. I count my winners rather than my losers.

I couldn't have children, so that's the bad side. But compared to everything else I have, it's not all that terribly bad. I count my winners rather than my losers.

Maeve Binchy

I used to dream of some kind of way that you could carry a phone with you - but I never thought I would see it in my lifetime. It doesn't matter nowadays if you are caught in traffic or got lost on the way somewhere. You can just send a text and the recipient will know that you haven't fallen under a bus.

Maeve Binchy

You don't wear all your jewellery at once. You're much more believable if you talk in your own voice.

You don't wear all your jewellery at once. You're much more believable if you talk in your own voice.

Maeve Binchy

I have great family and good friends; the stories I told became popular, and people all over the world bought them.

I have great family and good friends; the stories I told became popular, and people all over the world bought them.

Maeve Binchy

On the first day of school, my father told me I'd be the most popular girl and everyone would love me and want to be my friend. It wasn't so, but it gave me an enormous amount of confidence.

On the first day of school, my father told me I'd be the most popular girl and everyone would love me and want to be my friend. It wasn't so, but it gave me an enormous amount of confidence.

Maeve Binchy

I didn't get excited by weight loss, and since I was already happy being fat, I couldn't see the point of it all. I'm 6 ft. and weigh about 18 st. or 19 st., but weighing myself is not something I do with much pleasure.

Maeve Binchy

I have been luckier than anyone I know or even heard of. I had a very happy childhood, a good education, I enjoyed working as a teacher, journalist and author. I have loved a wonderful man for over 33 years, and I believe he loves me, too.

Maeve Binchy

Everybody is a hero in their own story if you just look.

Everybody is a hero in their own story if you just look.

Maeve Binchy

I was fat, and that was awful because when you're young and sensitive, you think the world is over because you're fat.

I was fat, and that was awful because when you're young and sensitive, you think the world is over because you're fat.

Maeve Binchy

We asked our friends and relations to lend us their children, and, because we lived in London, children loved to come and stay for their half-term holidays.

We asked our friends and relations to lend us their children, and, because we lived in London, children loved to come and stay for their half-term holidays.

Maeve Binchy

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