Memorable Quotes
1012 Memorable quotes by 485 unique authors
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On a plane you can pick up more and better people than on any other public conveyance since the stagecoach.
— Anita Loos
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I would rather fight with my hands than my tongue.
— Dolley Madison
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I'm tough, ambitious and I know exactly what I want.
— Madonna Ciccone
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People with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children.
— Mary McCarthy
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Getting along with men isn't what's truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with one man.
— Phyllis McGinley
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I wouldn't say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.
— Bette Midler
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Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.
— Iris Murdoch
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I may be a dumb blonde, but I'm not that blonde.
— Patricia Neal
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Dear Mary: We all knew you had it in you.
— Dorothy Parker
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There's a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
— Dorothy Parker
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Lots of people think they're charitable if they give away their old clothes and things they don't want.
— Myrtle Reed
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The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.
— Agnes Repplier
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If my husband ever met a woman on the street who looked like one of his paintings he would faint.
— Unknown Author
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Love is like a rose, the joy of all the earth.
— Christina Rossetti
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We want far better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them.
— Dora Russell
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Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.
— Rosalind Russell
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Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be.
— May Sarton
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One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom.
— Muriel Spark
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We all like stories that make us cry. It's so nice to feel sad when you've nothing in particular to feel sad about.
— Anne Sullivan Macy
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All creative people should be required to leave California for three months every year.
— Gloria Swanson
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No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.
— Sara Teasdale
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Lack of education is an extraordinary handicap when one is being offensive.
— Josephine Tey
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This guy says, "I'm perfect for you, 'cause I'm a cross between a macho man and a sensitive man." I said, "Oh, a gay trucker?"
— Judy Tenuta
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Truth has never been, can never be, contained in any one creed or system.
— Mary Augusta Ward
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No question is ever settled until it is settled right.
— Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Who Wrote These Memorable Quotes
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