Margaret Kennedy Quotes

• It is better to break one's heart than to do nothing with it.

  Margaret Kennedy

  Love, Heart, Romantic Love

  Margaret Kennedy (1939). “The Midas Touch”, New York : Random House

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• Patience is the capacity to endure all that is necessary in attaining a desired end. ... Patience never forsakes the ultimate goal because the road is hard. There can be no patience without an object.

  Margaret Kennedy

  Patience, Goal, Ends

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• It's no use to worry about what people think. I never do. I used to. But when I saw that they'd really rather think wrong than right I gave it up.

  Margaret Kennedy

  Thinking, People, Worry

  Margaret Kennedy (2014). “Ladies of Lyndon”, p.100, Random House

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• where the bedroom is wrong the whole house is wrong.

  Margaret Kennedy

  Sex, House, Bedroom

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• ... acquired tastes are the mark of the man of leisure.

  Margaret Kennedy

  Men, Taste, Leisure

  Margaret Kennedy (2014). “Ladies of Lyndon”, p.75, Random House

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• They are emotional gluttons, both of them. They gobbled up every sensation they could extract from marriage, and now they are seeing if separation won't provide them with a few more.

  Margaret Kennedy

  Emotional, Separation, Seeing

  Margaret Kennedy (2011). “Lucy Carmichael”, p.8, Faber & Faber

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