Divorce Quotes - Page 27

• There was altogether too much candor in married life; it was an indelicate modern idea, and frequently led to upsets in a household, if not divorce.

  Muriel Spark

  Ideas, Upset, Too Much

  Muriel Spark (2018). “A Good Comb: The Sayings of Muriel Spark”, p.17, New Directions Publishing

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• You can't do sweatpants... ladies, number one cause of divorce in America, sweatpants, no!

  Eva Mendes

  Numbers, America, Causes

  "Eva Mendes' First Interview About New Baby, Plus Her Secret Rule to Keeping Ryan Gosling Happy at Home". extratv.com. March 18, 2015.

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• An ex-wife is a woman with a crick in the neck from looking back over her shoulder at her matrimony.

  Ursula Parrott

  Wife, Necks, Shoulders

  Ursula Parrott (1989). “Ex-wife”, Plume

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• The divorce rate would be lower if instead of marrying for better or worse
  people would marry for good.

  Ruby Dee

  Marriage, People, Would Be

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• No matter how free divorce, how frequently marriages break up, in most societies there
  is the assumption of permanent mating, of the idea that the marriage should last as
  long as both live. . . . No known society has ever invented a form of marriage strong
  enough to stick that did not contain the 'till death us do part' assumption.

  Margaret Mead

  Marriage, Strong, Ideas

  Margaret Mead (1975). “Male and female: a study of the sexes in a changing world”, William Morrow & Co

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• Maybe a nation that consumes as much booze and dope as we do and has our kind of divorce statistics should pipe down about "character issues."

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Character, Dope, Issues

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government”, p.32, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• A person's character is what it is. It's a little like a marriage - only without the option of divorce. You can work on it and try to make it better, but basically you have to take the bitter with the sweet.

  Hendrik Hertzberg

  Sweet, Character, Trying

  Hendrik Hertzberg (2005). “Politics: Observations and Arguments, 1966-2004”, p.49, Penguin

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• A wife lasts only for the length of the marriage, but an ex-wife is there for the rest of your life.

  Woody Allen

  Breakup, Drinking, Wife

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• The aesthete aims at harmony rather than beauty. If his hair does not match the mauve sunset against which he is standing, he hurriedly dyes his hair another shade of mauve. If his wife does not go with the wall-paper, he gets a divorce.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Wall, Sunset, Hair

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• I've never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is only a temporary situation.

  Mike Todd

  Inspirational, Attitude, Mind

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• We just say: the divorce didn't work out.

  Joe

  Marriage, Work Out

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• The divorce is from my old putter. I think it's final - at least we're due for a long separation. I've suffered with that old putter for two years now. It got so rude I couldn't stand it.

  Shelley Hamlin

  Golf, Thinking, Years

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• People in the business will stay with you through drugs and alcohol and divorces and insanity and everything else, but you have a failure, pal, and they don't want to know nothing about you!

  Don Johnson

  People, Alcohol, Insanity

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• "Hit it with the back of your left hand" was the first swing thought I ever heard, brusquely bu not unlovingly put to me by the aunt-in-law who had moments before placed a golf club in my virgin grip. I was twenty-five, and had spent my youth in a cloisterd precinct of teh middle class where golf was a rumoured something, like champagne breakfasts and divorce, that the rich did.

  John Updike

  Golf, Aunt, Swings

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• As soon as I get through with you, you'll have a clear case for divorce and so will my wife.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Crazy, Silly

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• Judges, as a class, display, in the matter of arranging alimony, that reckless generosity which is found only in men who are giving away someone else's cash.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Men, Class, Generosity

  "Louder and Funnier". Book by P. G. Wodehouse, 1932.

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• Getting a divorce is nearly always as cheerful and useful an occupation as breaking valuable china.

  Rebecca West

  Marriage, Wedding, Cheerful

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• I am a divorced child, of divided, uncertain background. Within this division I - supposed fruit of their love - no longer exist. It happened nearly forty years ago, yet to me nothing is sadder than my parents' divorce.

  Sylvia Kristel

  Children, Years, Parent

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• People are reluctant to cite boredom as grounds for divorce.

  Mason Cooley

  People, Boredom, Citing

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• I thought at the time of my parents' divorce that I was upset by deeper, more profound things and I was just taking it out on the joint custody agreement. But that disruption was bad enough. That was a huge deal for a teenager.

  Noah Baumbach

  Teenager, Agreement, Profound

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• Lovers' quarrels are not generally about money. Divorce cases generally are.

  Mason Cooley

  Money, Lovers, Quarrels

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• If it is right to be legally married, it is right to be legally divorced ... To be deprived of a Divorce is like being shut up in prison because someone attempted to kill you. It is just as honorable to get out of matrimonial trouble legally, as to be freed from any other wrong.

  Mary Edwards Walker

  Married, Shut Up, Prison

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• This habit of free speaking at ladies' lunches has impaired society; it has doubtless led to many of the tragedies of divorce and marital unhappiness. Could society be deaf and dumb and Congress abolished for a season, what a happy and peaceful life one could lead!

  M. E. W. Sherwood

  Happy, Lunch, Dumb

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• You should be prepared for anything during divorce proceedings - even the truth.

  Dave Barry

  Should, Be Prepared, Proceeding

  Dave Barry (2001). “All the Dave Barry you could ever want: four classic books in one from America's foremost humorist”

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• Viking women were able to rule kingdoms, divorce husbands, own land, and Vikings were very progressive in terms of the rights of women.

  Gabriel Byrne

  Husband, Rights, Land

  "A Minute With: Gabriel Byrne's TV Viking chieftain". Interview with Jill Jacobs, www.reuters.com. February 27, 2013.

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