Baths Quotes - Page 6

• It is a mistake that there is no bath that will cure people's manners, but drowning would help.

  Mark Twain

  Mistake, People, Helping

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.19, Courier Corporation

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• That is what I mean. A bath! The receptacle of porcelain, one turns the taps and fills it, one gets in, one gets out and ghoosh - ghoosh - ghoosh, the water goes down the waste pipe!" "M. Poirot are you quite mad?" "No, I am extremely sane.

  Agatha Christie

  Mean, Mad, Water

  Agatha Christie (1986). “5 Complete Novels of Murder and Detection”, Wings

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• I have developed a rash on my body where the rough cloth rubs on my skin. I wanted to take a bath, thinking that the dirt on my skin made the rash worse, but the bathing tub has been turned upside down and is being used as an extra table in the kitchen and i cannot have it until spring, so I just spread goose grease on my rash. The dogs are following me everywhere.

  Karen Cushman

  Dog, Spring, Thinking

  Karen Cushman (2014). “Catherine, Called Birdy”, p.28, Pan Macmillan

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• When you're a teenager, your friends are your life. When you grow up, friendships seem to get pushed further and further back, until it seems like a luxury, a frivolity, like a bubble bath.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Growing Up, Teenager, Luxury

  Sarah Addison Allen (2012). “The Peach Keeper”, p.132, Hachette UK

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• Always eyes watching you and the voice enveloping you. Asleep or awake, indoors or out of doors, in the bath or bed- no escape. Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimeters in your skull.

  George Orwell

  Eye, Doors, Voice

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.128, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The cosy glow which had been enveloping the Duke became shot through by a sudden chill. It was as if he had been luxuriating in a warm shower bath, and some hidden hand had turned on the cold tap.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  War, Hands, Dukes

  "Uncle Fred in the Springtime". Book by P. G. Wodehouse, 1939.

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• The book is a uniquely durable object, one that can be fully enjoyed without being damaged. A book doesn't require fuel, food, or service; it isn't very messy and rarely makes a noise. A book can be read over and over, then passed on to friends, or resold at a garage sale. A book will not crash or freeze and will still work when filled with sand. Even if it falls into the bath, it can be dried out and finished. Books require no special training to operate.

  Lewis Buzbee

  Book, Fall, Training

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• But you can't muscle through a five-hour run that way; you have to relax into it like easing your body into a hot bath, until it no longer resists the shock and begins to enjoy it.

  Christopher McDougall

  Running, Relax, Hot

  Christopher McDougall (2010). “Born to Run: The hidden tribe, the ultra-runners, and the greatest race the world has never seen”, p.69, Profile Books

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• But yeah, Ann [Trason] insisted, running was romantic; and no, of course her friends didn't get it because they'd never broken through. For them, running was a miserable two miles motivated solely by size 6 jeans: get on the scale, get depressed, get your headphones on, and get it over with. But you can't muscle through a five-hour run that way; you have to relax into it, like easing your body into a hot bath, until it no longer resists the shock and begins to enjoy it.

  Christopher McDougall

  Running, Jeans, Two

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• I invented that little rhyme about 'One Ring to rule them all', I remember, in the bath one day.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  One Day, Littles, Remember

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• Colin had always preferred baths; one of his general policies in life was never to do anything standing up that could just as easily be done lying down

  John Green

  Lying, Done, Policy

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.13, Penguin

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• I say 'Mom, how come you don't change into an evening gown for dinner?' She says 'I do, it's called a bath robe. [...]

  Lauren Child

  Mom, Gowns, Dinner

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• All right," sighed Madrigal. "To the baths, then. To make ourselves shiningly clean." Like vegetable, she thought, before they go in the stew.

  Laini Taylor

  Vegetables, Clean, Stew

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• I lay in that tub on the seventeenth floor of this hotel for-women-only, high up over the jazz and push of New York, for near unto an hour, and I felt myself growing pure again. I don't believe in baptism or the waters of Jordan or anything like that, but I guess I feel about a hot bath the way those religious people feel about holy water.

  Sylvia Plath

  Religious, New York, Believe

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.13, Hamilton Books

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• Even if you’ve taken off every stitch of clothing, you still have your secrets, your history, your true name. It’s hard to be really naked. You have to work hard at it. Just getting into a bath isn’t being naked, not really. It’s just showing skin.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Life, Taken, Hard Work

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• The cure for a broken heart is simple, my lady. A hot bath and a good night's sleep.

  Margaret George

  Broken Heart, Good Night, Sleep

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• I recommend Avon Skin-So-Soft. It’s a bath product. It smells like someone fed a Disney Princess through a juicer, but it works better than anything else on the market.

  Mira Grant

  Princess, Smell, Skins

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• I gave my artistic laugh and also threw in some quirky language for good measure. "Lawks-a-mercy, no! I'm going to have a long bath and..." I looked shyly down. Which is pretty impressive to have done artistic laugh, quirky language and shyness all in the space of ten seconds.

  Louise Rennison

  Space, Long, Laughing

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• I never need to find time to read. When people say to me, ‘Oh, yeah, I love reading. I would love to read, but I just don’t have time,’ I’m thinking, ‘How can you not have time?’ I read when I’m drying my hair. I read in the bath. I read when I’m sitting in the bathroom. Pretty much anywhere I can do the job one-handed, I read.

  J. K. Rowling

  Jobs, Reading, Thinking

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• A man may have strong humanitarian and democratic principles, but if he happens to have been brought up as a bath-taking, shirt-changing lover of fresh air, he will have to overcome certain physical repugnance before he can bring himself to put those principles into practice.

  Aldous Huxley

  Strong, Men, Air

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• Certain old men prefer to rise at dawn, taking a cold bath and a long walk with an empty stomach and otherwise mortifying the flesh. They then point with pride to these practices as the cause of their sturdy health and ripe years; the truth being that they are hearty and old, not because of their habits, but in spite of them. The reason we find only robust persons doing this thing is that it has killed all the others who have tried it.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Crazy, Pride, Men

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.50, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• While I was drying off Maddie after her bath tonight, she said, 'I love you' to me for the first time. It sounded like 'All lub boo,' but I didn't care. To reciprocate, I showed her what an ex-Marine looks like when he cries.

  Jim Beaver

  Funny Inspirational, Love You, Marine

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• See it's easy as cake, simple as whistling Dixie
  While I'm waving the pistol at sixty Christians against me
  Go to war with the Mormons, take a bath with the Catholics
  In holy water, no wonder they tried to hold me under longer.

  Eminem

  Christian, War, Rap

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• Alone, she took hot baths and sat exhausted in the steaming water, wondering at her perpetual exhaustion. All that winter she noticed the limp, languid weight of her arms, her veins bulging slightly with the pressure of her extreme weariness ... one day in January she drew a razor blade lightly across the inside of her arm, near the elbow, to see what would happen.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Winter, Water, One Day

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• Blood transforms the warm bath water and, in it, I see weakly that this was a mistake. The razor's cut is not deep, nevertheless the blood rushes out happily in the warm water as if kin to it, the same tender substance. Rising a new person transformed with an icy sense of error I go to the sink and turn on cold water which is not friendly to blood. The cut is deeper than imagined.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Suicide, Mistake, Self Harm

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