Quotations from

Elizabeth Aston

About

Elizabeth Edmondson (21 February 1948 – 11 January 2016), also known under the names Elizabeth Aston and Elizabeth Pewsey, was an English author who wrote primarily in the mystery, historical, and contemporary fiction genres. She studied Jane Austen while a student at St Hilda's College, Oxford, and many of her published stories were adaptations and sequels of Austen's works, beginning with Mr. Darcy's Daughters in 2003. Edmondson also founded a youth holiday orchestra to provide musical opportunities for local young people in the York area, an organisation that has operated since 1992. Her son, Anselm Audley, is a fantasy author.

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Quotes from Elizabeth Aston

Love has no place in a lawyer's office.

—Elizabeth Aston

You can't jump down the stairs in one leap, however much you might wish to, and you even more surely can't jump up it, but one step and then the next and there you are, at the top or the bottom and not a bit out of breath or discomposed.

—Elizabeth Aston

There was no escaping by means of any journey, however adventurous, one took one's problems and sorrows with one.

—Elizabeth Aston

Easy enough to dismiss others' problems when you had none of your own.

—Elizabeth Aston

Concern for someone else was a good remedy for taking the mind off one's own troubles.

—Elizabeth Aston

One remembers horrors, I think, for the rest of one's life, but memories do not always remain so sharp, and with time, and new circumstance, do not affect us so powerfully.

—Elizabeth Aston

The trouble with lies was that once started, the fiction had to be continued, and it was hard always to be remembering details that you had made up upon the spur of the moment.

—Elizabeth Aston

It's not what you want in this life, it's what you get that you have to do with.

—Elizabeth Aston

When men are scared of a woman, they always accuse her of being mannish.

—Elizabeth Aston

We have to have the money to do the work we want to do, as well as to keep a roof over our heads and food on the table. Fat commissions are good, but not always easy to come by, and each new painting takes its time. So we need to find every way possible to earn extra income from our work.

—Elizabeth Aston