But what is woman? - only one of Nature's agreeable blunders.
QUOTE OF THE DAY
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Don't talk about yourself. It will be done when you leave.
Honesty is the best policy but it is not the cheapest.
An ex-boyfriend of much married Zsa Zsa Gabor commented:
She has proved beyond doubt that diamonds are the hardest thing in the world - to get back!
She has proved beyond doubt that diamonds are the hardest thing in the world - to get back!
It's the good girls keep diaries. The bad girls never have the time.
The best number for a dinner party is two: myself and a damned good head waiter.
British diplomacy - never climb a fence if you can sit on it. An old foreign office proverb.
Diplomats are just as essential for starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it.
Critic Dorothy Parker on an elderly actress who was acting in Camelot:
Playing a battlement, no doubt.
Playing a battlement, no doubt.
He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than illumination.
An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard only one side of the case; God has written all the books.
The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.
Behindthegoal
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With a bit of luck, (better than the alternative)
Coward: one, who in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs
The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.
I have noticed that people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.
W B Yeats on being telephoned that he'd won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923:
Stop babbling, man! How much?
Stop babbling, man! How much?
Jilly Cooper on political correctness in book publishing:
'You old scrubber' came back as 'You ex-cleaning woman you'.
'You old scrubber' came back as 'You ex-cleaning woman you'.
People who live in glass houses should pull down the blinds.
Wine gives you liberty, love takes it away.