Mrs Quotations

I entirely agree with you about the obscurity of Mrs Browning's line about the stars. It is far-fetched. She wanted to express something which she found beyond expression.

Mrs Woolf's complaint should be addressed to her creator, who made her, rather than me.

Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then.

Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.

Those who do not complain are never pitied.

Numerous appointments were agreed verbally with Mrs Allen to gain access to fit a letter-box, but she continually refused to allow access or stay at home.

Mrs Giri had told me about this interesting project. And she'd asked me to help her find the right people to work out the venture. So I simply carried out the initial introductions. I'm glad this venture is finally on its way to being performed.

Mrs Merkel has always been underestimated. She has an uncompromising will to succeed. She always seems to know what to do next and then get on with it.

i forgot to ask how's your husband Mrs O" "oh, he's dead miss babs" "how terrible, how?" "his heart stopped beating

i forgot to ask how's your husband Mrs O""oh, he's dead miss babs""how terrible, how?""his heart stopped beating

Jim Joel, Lord Howard de Walden, Nicky Phillips and Mrs Doris Allen were very hard to replace. The times are changing and we're moving with it. We're getting up back up there.

I think their real problem is that they have still not recovered from Mrs Thatcher going,

Understandably, Mrs Catesby was very shocked and upset by the experience and thankfully only sustained minor injuries - a bruised hip and elbow from when she fell backwards in the assault.

Yes, you know enough of my frankness to believe me capable of that. After abusing you so abominably to your face, I could have no scruple in abusing you to all your relations.” -Elizabeth Bennet

I have not the pleasure of understanding you.

And what am I to do on the occasion? -- It seems an hopeless business.

An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do.

I have the highest respect for your nerves, they are my old friends.

Oh! Single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our girls!

What are men to rocks and mountains?

Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.

I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.

You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentlemanlike manner." (Elizabeth Bennett)

Do you not want to know who has taken it?" cried his wife impatiently.

Well, my dear," said Mr. Bennet, when Elizabeth had read the note aloud, "if your daughter should have a dangerous fit of illness—if she should die, it would be a comfort to know that it was all in pursuit of Mr. Bingley, and under your orders.

My dear Mr. Bennet," said his lady to him one day, "have you heard that Netherfield Park is let at last?

Mr. Bennet's expectations were fully answered. His cousin was as absurd as he had hoped, and he listened to him with the keenest enjoyment.

We have been pondering Mrs Thatcher for some time. Many of us are 'Thatcher's children'. I was 13 when she came to power. She is great subject matter for a play. It is an epic story.

Until now, unless Mrs Rice has better information than the commission, there is no way to know the turnout figure and the result. I don't know where she got her information from.

When she told me that, I told her, well, shut up, because Mr and Mrs Clark and Blanche doesn't sound as good as Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy. And it was my title, not hers, anyway.

That pesky tradesman who won't turn up: "Oh, hello, did you ever watch Happy Days?" and when they say yes, I say, "Well, I'm Mrs C." Then I get everything I want.

Always ding, dinging Dame Grundy into my ears - What will Mrs Grundy say? What will Mrs Grundy think?

I loved to sing and I was given lots of encouragement by a wonderful music teacher Mrs Ann Hill and by my parents who suggested I go to drama school.

Does it really matter what these affectionate people do - so long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses! Mrs

You've got these six women - five daughters and Mrs Bennet - all talking over each other, all wanting to be heard and all needing their space. They've got to appear real.

All God's chillun got shoes or can get them in Mrs Marcos's closet, which is large enough to house Mr and Mrs Duvalier, itinerant nonlaborers.

We don't want a Mrs Thatcher-type figure hitting us with a handbag and telling us what to do.

I am pleased that Prince Charles and Mrs Camilla Parker Bowles have decided to take this important step.

For our part, we wonder why the services of Mrs Blair were requested in this particular case.

He became worried about money and was drinking and gambling to excess. He turned to Mrs Jones for support and she felt sorry for him.

A battle cry" Mr. Bennet said "is a warrior's calling card. Only it does not say 'Good afternoon. I have come for tea and crumpets.' It says 'Death has come for you! Flee or be killed where you stand!

for women live much more in the past...they attach themselves to places;

Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.

...she always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.

It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.

The world has raised its whip; where will it descend?

It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.

What is this terror? what is this ecstasy? he thought to himself. What is it that fills me with this extraordinary excitement? It is Clarissa, he said. For there she was.

Fear no more, says the heart...

After that, how unbelievable death was! - that is must end; and no one in the whole world would know how she had loved it all.

But the words she spoke of Mrs Harris, lambs could not forgive . . . nor worms forget.

Good evening Mr and Mrs America, from border to border and coast to coast and all the ships at sea. Let's go to press.

O the moon shone bright on Mrs Porter / And on her daughter / They wash their feet in soda water.

It's nothing, returned Mrs Chick. ""It's merely change of weather. We must expect change.