Aunts Aren't Gentlemen

The best aunts aren't substitute parents, they're co-conspirators.

— Daryl Gregory

“Don’t they put aunts in Turkey in sacks and drop them in the Bosphorus?’ ‘Odalisques, sir, I understand. Not aunts.”

— P.G. Wodehouse

“Jeeves, of course, is a gentleman’s gentlemen, not a butler, but if the call comes, he can buttle with the best of them.”

— P.G. Wodehouse

The disinterest [of my two great-aunts] in anything that had to do with high society was such that their sense of hearing ... put…

— Marcel Proust

Across the board, from my mother to my father to my aunts and uncles, everybody has always given me a lot of love.

— Amos Lee

Aunts offer kids an opportunity to try out ideas that don't chime with their parents and they also demonstrate that people can get on,…

— Sara Sheridan

Whenever I've not known what to do, I've always gone back to the Carter Family because there was nothing like singing with my aunts…

— Carlene Carter

“Aunts are to be a pattern and example to all aunts; to be a delight to boys (and girls) and a comfort to their…

— Dave Isay

“Amish children are usually named after aunts or uncles or some other relation. Keeps the family names going.”

— Sarah Price

We're good at taking care of little kids, and spend a lot of energy teaching them things like how to read. But when kids…

— Laurie Halse Anderson

I have always maintained the importance of Aunts

— Jane Austen

My parents had become adults during the Great Depression, as had many of my aunts and uncles, so I got stories from all of…

— Joe R. Lansdale

I grew up with a posh English accent, and all my aunts sounded as if they came out of a Merchant Ivory movie.

— Kevin Kwan

I had aunts who played piano and sang and also were entertainers, so music was very much a part of my life.

— Dianne Reeves

My only way of getting my uncles' attention or aunts' attention or whoever's attention was by dancing and singing around the house.

— Becky G