Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rebecca West

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

Woody Allen

In my house I'm the boss, my wife is just the decision maker.

Walter Bagehot

Women--one half the human race at least--care fifty times more for a marriage than a ministry.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.

Robert Louis Stevenson

You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.

Sarah Fielding

There is yet another kind of matrimonial dialect (which naturally succeeds this of talking at each other), which may very properlybe styled The Language Contradictory.... In the former, however plain the object of satire may be exhibited to the whole company, yet there always remains some little covering.... But in this last method, the defiance becomes more open and the impetuosity with which these contradictions are uttered (although the subjects of them are often of the most indifferent nature) evidently prove that they arise from passion.

Sarah Fielding

I believe no gentleman would like to have his family affairs neglected because his wife was filling her head with crotchets and pothooks, and who, because she understood a few scraps of Latin, valued that more than minding her needle or providing her husband's dinner.

Samuel Johnson

It is so far from being natural for a man and woman to live in a state of marriage, that we find all the motives which they have for remaining in that connection, and the restraints which civilised society imposes to prevent separation, are hardly sufficient to keep them together.

Samuel Johnson

I would advise no man to marry who is not likely to propagate understanding.

Juliet Marillier

Become my friend and you embrace a nightmare.

Michael Posner

A filmmaker's worst nightmare is screening his film and there's no one in the theater to see it.

Larry Hollingworth

This weather is the nightmare we were expecting. People are now at their most vulnerable.

Sylvia Browne

Nightmares are releases.

Stephen Rea

You have to know who you are, if you don't you have nightmares.

Stefanie Powers

Packing is always a nightmare.

Max Beerbohm

Have you noticed ... there is never any third act in a nightmare? They bring you to a climax of terror and then leave you there. They are the work of poor dramatists.

Merrill Markoe

Every moment of your life that is not a complete nightmare is happiness.

Alfred Hitchcock

Give them pleasure the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare