Bitchiness - The film actress Jean Harlow inquired whether the name Margot was pronounced 'Margo' or 'Margott'.
'Margo' - the 'T' is silent - as in 'Harlow'.
'Margo' - the 'T' is silent - as in 'Harlow'.
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I’m wondering who the Margot was, all respect to her
Don't know, it didn't say.
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Margot Asquith the prime minister’s wife. Well known for her waspish wit, apparently
Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person?
There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook but won't, and that's the wife who can't cook and will.
Dorothy Parker, American writer/critic, to a tiresome escort who complained that he couldn't bear fools:
That's odd. Your mother could.
That's odd. Your mother could.
Dinner at the Huntercombes' possessed only two dramatic features - the wine was a farce and the food was a tragedy.
I have noticed that people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.
Bisexuality - it immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night.
Puritanism - That kind of so-called housekeeping where they have six Bibles and no corkscrew.
The late, truly great Aussie cricket all-rounder, Keith Miller, was once asked if playing cricket caused him pressure. Miller, who had fought the Luftwaffe as a flight lieutenant during the Second World War, replied:
Pressure is a Messerschmitt up your arse. Playing cricket is not.
Pressure is a Messerschmitt up your arse. Playing cricket is not.
When I read about the evils of drinking I gave up reading.
Washington DC - Too small to be a state but too large to be an asylum for the mentally deranged.
That woman speaks eighteen languages and can't say No in any of them.
Treat each day as your last: one day you will be right.
Jeff Foxworthy:
Watching a baby being born is a little like watching a wet St Bernard coming in through the cat flap.
Watching a baby being born is a little like watching a wet St Bernard coming in through the cat flap.
Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, English actor, to a would-be dramatist:
Dear Sir, I have read your play. Oh, my dear Sir, Yours faithfully.
Dear Sir, I have read your play. Oh, my dear Sir, Yours faithfully.
In England, Justice is open to all, like the Ritz hotel.