Talking Dirty by Carole McKenzie

Author:Carole McKenzie
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Mainstream Publishing
Published: 2013-11-09T04:30:00+00:00

MARRIAGE

It destroys one’s nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.

Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881), former Conservative Prime Minister of Britain

Don’t marry a man to reform him – that’s what reform schools are for.

Mae West (1893–1980), American actress

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

Jane Austen (1775–1817), British novelist

It’s a funny thing that when a man hasn’t anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.

Robert Frost (1874–1963), American poet

Someone asked me why women don’t gamble as much as men do, and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don’t have as much money. That was a true and incomplete answer. In fact, women’s total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.

Gloria Steinem, American feminist writer

Putting one’s hand into a bag of snakes on the chance of drawing out an eel.

Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519), leading figure of the Italian Renaissance

Nobody else could sleep with Dick. He wakes up during the night, switches on the lights, speaks into his tape recorder, or takes notes – it’s impossible.

Pat Nixon (1912–1993), wife of President Richard Nixon

A man can be a fool and not know it – but not if he is married.

H.L. Mencken (1880–1956), American writer and humorist

Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she’s a householder.

Thornton Wilder (1897–1975), American playwright

One wishes marriage for one’s daughter and, for one’s descendants, better luck.

Fay Weldon, British writer

Politics doesn’t make strange bedfellows – marriage does.

Groucho Marx (1880–1977), American comedian

Most of the time in married life is taken up by talk.

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), German philosopher

No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881), former Conservative Prime Minister of Britain

In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar – a practice which is still continued.

Helen Rowland (1875–1950), American writer and humorist

My Nellie knows that the front door to the back is hers, and the outside world’s mine. She’s even quite good at changing plugs and all those little things you have to train women to do.

Lord Gormley (1917–1993), President of the National Union of Mineworkers, on his wife

Bad enough to make mistakes, without going ahead and marrying them.

Craig Rice (1908–1957), American novelist

You, poor and obscure, and small and plain as you are – I entreat you to accept me as a husband.

Mr Rochester in Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (1816–1855), British novelist

I’ve married a few people I shouldn’t have, but haven’t we all?

Mamie Van Doren, American actress who modelled herself on Marilyn Monroe

Do you take sugar?

Sir Ian MacGregor (1912–1998), former Chairman of British Coal, to his wife, despite having being married to her for 45 years

It is true that I never should have married, but I didn’t want to live without a man. Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I’m afraid it did.

Bette Davis (1908–1989), American actress

I always say a girl must get married for love – and keep on getting married until she finds it.

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