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 was the big, bossy older sister, full of enthusiasms, mad fantasies, desperate urges to be famous, and anxious to be a saint - a settled sort of saint, not one who might have to suffer or die for her faith.

Maeve Binchy

Of course I wanted children. Bright, gorgeous, loving children. I could almost see them.

Of course I wanted children. Bright, gorgeous, loving children. I could almost see them.

Maeve Binchy

I didn't have a sweet tooth, but I liked butter, and I liked sauces, and I liked wine... and curry... and cheeses.

I didn't have a sweet tooth, but I liked butter, and I liked sauces, and I liked wine... and curry... and cheeses.

Maeve Binchy

When I was being brought up, we weren't allowed to wallow in self-pity, which was a thoroughly good thing. We were all fine and healthy because that was what we were told to be.

When I was being brought up, we weren't allowed to wallow in self-pity, which was a thoroughly good thing. We were all fine and healthy because that was what we were told to be.

Maeve Binchy

If you don't go to a dance, you can never be rejected, but you'll never get to dance, either.

If you don't go to a dance, you can never be rejected, but you'll never get to dance, either.

Maeve Binchy

Always write as if you are talking to someone. It works. Don't put on any fancy phrases or accents or things you wouldn't say in real life.

Always write as if you are talking to someone. It works. Don't put on any fancy phrases or accents or things you wouldn't say in real life.

Maeve Binchy

Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.

Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.

Maeve Binchy

An English journalist called Michael Viney told me when I was 25, that I would write well if I cared a lot what I was writing about. That worked. I went home that day and wrote about parents not understanding their children as well as we teachers did, and it was published the very next week.

Maeve Binchy

I wore miniskirts in the days when no fat girls should have, and with total delight.

I wore miniskirts in the days when no fat girls should have, and with total delight.

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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