Memorable Quotes - Page 17

• Those that are good manners at the court are as ridiculous in the country, as the behavior of the country is most mockable at the court.

  William Shakespeare

  Country, Good Man, Ridiculous

  William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.672, BookCaps Study Guides

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• We do not keep the outward form of order, where there is deep disorder in the mind.

  William Shakespeare

  Order, Mind, Form

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• A very ancient and fish-like smell.

  William Shakespeare

  Smell, Ancient, Tempest

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 2, sc. 2, l. [27]

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• Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing.

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Farewell, Dear

  Sonnet 87

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• Cursed be he that moves my bones.

  William Shakespeare

  Moving, Bones, Cursed

  Epitaph on his tomb at Stratford-on-Avon, supposed to have been chosen by himself.

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• This is the short and the long of it.

  William Shakespeare

  Long, Windsor, Merry

  "The Merry Wives of Windsor". Book by William Shakespeare, 1602.

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• He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat.

  William Shakespeare

  Fashion, Hats

  1598 Beatrice, of Benedick. Much AdoAbout Nothing, act1, sc.1, l.71-3.

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• Your face is a book, where men may read strange matters.

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Men, Lady Macbeth

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• I pray you bear me henceforth from the noise and rumour of the field, where I may think the remnant of my thoughts in peace, and part of this body and my soul with contemplation and devout desires.

  William Shakespeare

  Thinking, Soul, Desire

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• I'm tough, ambitious and I know exactly what I want.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Strong Women, Feminist Art, Empowering

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• People with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children.

  Mary McCarthy

  Forgiveness, Children, Women

  Mary McCarthy (1961). “On the contrary”, Farrar, Straus and Cudahy

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• Getting along with men isn't what's truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with one man.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Women, Important, One Man

  Phyllis McGinley (1962). “The province of the heart”

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• I wouldn't say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.

  Bette Midler

  Women, Tacky, Popularity

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• Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.

  Iris Murdoch

  Love, Fall, Eye

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• I may be a dumb blonde, but I'm not that blonde.

  Patricia Neal

  Women, Dumb, Blonde

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• Dear Mary: We all knew you had it in you.

  Dorothy Parker

  Mary, Dear

  Quoted in AlexanderWoollcott, While Rome Burns (1934)

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• Lots of people think they're charitable if they give away their old clothes and things they don't want.

  Myrtle Reed

  Thinking, Clothes, People

  Myrtle Reed (1916). “Old Rose and Silver”, p.69, Library of Alexandria

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• If my husband ever met a woman on the street who looked like one of his paintings he would faint.

  Jacqueline Roque

  Husband, Painting, Mets

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• Love is like a rose, the joy of all the earth.

  Christina Rossetti

  Love Is, Rose, Joy

  Christina Rossetti (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)”, p.303, Delphi Classics

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• We want far better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them.

  Dora Russell

  Children, Women, Knowing

  Hypatia ch. 4 (1925)

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• Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.

  Rosalind Russell

  Funeral, Political, Affair

  "Halliwell's Who's Who in the Movies". Book by John Walker (p. 383), 2001.

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• Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be.

  May Sarton

  Women, Wife, Lasts

  May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.37, Open Road Media

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• One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom.

  Muriel Spark

  Inspirational, Women, Blessing

  Muriel Spark (2012). “Doctors of Philosophy: A Play”, p.56, Open Road Media

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• We all like stories that make us cry. It's so nice to feel sad when you've nothing in particular to feel sad about.

  Anne Sullivan Macy

  Nice, Stories, Cry

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• Lack of education is an extraordinary handicap when one is being offensive.

  Josephine Tey

  Education, Women, Offensive

  "The Franchise Affair".

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