Alluring Quote by Anne Sebba

“My dad once told me that Winstone Churchill said that Russia was riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma. According to my dad,…

— Jenny Han

After a burglary of all her most valued and treasured possessions, Winston Churchill's aging mother wrote: "That burglar relieved me of an obsession. For…

— Anne Sebba

“(Exchange with Winston Churchill) Churchill explains that having a woman in Parliament was like having one intrude on him in the bathroom, to which…

— Nancy Astor the Viscountess Astor

“Mama will be pleased to know that her least favourite daughter is to be married." "To her least favourite man in the world, no…

— P.O. Dixon

“Nancy Astor: "Sir, if you were my husband, I'd poison your tea." Winston Churchill: "Madame,i f you were my wife, I'd drink it!" (Exchange…

— Nancy Astor the Viscountess Astor

When Jennie, mother of Winston Churchill invited playwright George Bernard Shaw to lunch, he telegraphed: "Certainly not. What have I done to provoke such…

— Anne Sebba

“Mother says that people like me just become intellectual old maids,' I told him. 'I don't see why,' he protested. 'Oh, well, it's probably…

— Vera Brittain

“Winston had disliked her from the very first moment of seeing her. He knew the reason. It was because of the atmosphere of hockey−fields…

— George Orwell

“Men! Her mother actually wanted to marry one of these?”

— Stephanie Bond

“As I looked at [my future husband] I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the lesson she…

— Anna Quindlen

“marriage had always been her object; it was the only provision for well-educated young women of small fortune, and however uncertain of giving happiness,…

— Jane Austen

“Without thinking highly either of men or of matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only honourable provision for well-educated young…

— Jane Austen