Quotes by Pamela Hansford Johnson

Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like; but never believe he is being on the level with you.
– Pamela Hansford Johnson
I have always wanted to write in such a way that will make people think, Why, I've always thought that but never found the words for it.
– Pamela Hansford Johnson
The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire.
– Pamela Hansford Johnson
There are few things more disturbing than to find, in somebody we detest, a moral quality which seems to us demonstrably superior to anything we ourselves possess. It augurs not merely an unfairness on the part of creation, but a lack of artistic judgment. Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.
– Pamela Hansford Johnson
We demand that people should be true to the pictures we have of them, no matter how repulsive those pictures may be: we prefer the true portrait in all its homogeneity, to one with a detail added which refuses to fit in.
– Pamela Hansford Johnson
You slam a politician, you make out he's the devil, with horns and hoofs. But his wife loves him, and so did all his mistresses.
– Pamela Hansford Johnson