Mrs Quotes
411 Mrs quotes by 296 unique authors
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His mother and father were agnostics, and Jim respected devout Christians in the same way that he respected people who were members of the Graf…
— J. G. Ballard
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In the light of her son's comment she reconsidered the scene at the mosque, to see whose impression was correct. Yes it could be worked…
— E. M. Forster
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Oh, it doesn't work at all. That's the problem! It's an endless, halting parade of inspections, bribes, and nonsense-but if you're aboard a Texas vessel,…
— Cherie Priest
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I heard police or ambulancemen, standing in our house, say, 'She must have provoked him,' or, 'Mrs Stewart, it takes two to make a fight.'…
— Patrick Stewart
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If I go up to Harlem or down to Sixth Street, and I'm not dressed up or I'm not wearing my jewelry, then the people…
— Brooke Astor
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The small irritations or indignities that we experience are nothing compared to what a previous generation experienced. It's one thing for me to be mistaken…
— Barack Obama
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The old series of sittings with Mrs. Piper convinced me of survival for reasons which I should find it hard to formulate in any strict…
— Oliver Lodge
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That was what stuck in the craws of all the good women of Deptford: Mrs Dempster had not been raped, as a decent woman would…
— Robertson Davies
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The night was at her disposal. She might walk back to Great Mop and arrive very late; or she might sleep out and not trouble…
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
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My Turn is the distilled bathwater of Mrs. Reagan's life. It is for the most part sweetish, with a tart edge of rebuke, but disappointingly…
— Barbara Ehrenreich
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Mrs. Jo did not mean the measles, but that more serious malady called love, which is apt to ravage communities, spring and autumn, when winter…
— Louisa May Alcott
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Smoke says the beef is much better than the squawky white birds. Her expression changed from annoyed to dismayed. Squawky white birds? Chickens? You ate…
— Anne Bishop
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It's false advertising to call Mrs. Obama the First Lady. First Woman, maybe, but certainly not a lady. Ann Romney is an actual lady.
— Mitt Romney
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Latina women are proud to be called Mrs. That simply means that we have a family.
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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I will always remember my delight when Mrs. Georgia Gilmore - an unlettered woman of unusual intelligence - told how an operator demanded that she…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Marry me. You can have all the money and credit cards you want, and the glory of being Mrs Packer, but you've got to let…
— James Packer
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Much of America is now in need of an equivalent of Mrs. Thatcher's privatization program in 1980s Britain, or post-Soviet Eastern Europe's economic liberalization in…
— Mark Steyn
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Oh, propriety," says Mrs Benjamin. "We're always so concerned with propriety. Even in total madness, we still stick to our hierarchies and chains of command.
— Robert Jackson Bennett
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Dear Mr. and Mrs. Obama, Thank you for sending me Christmas and New Year greetings yet again. Welcome back to India... Would have loved to…
— A. R. Rahman
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If you ask any ordinary reader which of Dickens's proletarian characters he can remember, the three he is almost certain to mention are Bill Sykes,…
— George Orwell
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Philip Larkin used to cheer himself up by looking in the mirror and saying the line from Rebecca, 'I am Mrs de Winter now!
— Alan Bennett
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Everyone wants to be immortal. Few are. Margaret Thatcher is. Why? Because her values are timeless, eternal. Tap anyone on the shoulder anywhere in the…
— Maurice Saatchi
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The language of Doctor Johnson and Mrs Hester Lynch Thrale, and that of their adult contemporaries, was the stately language of the time, polished, stylish,…
— Robert Burchfield
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So all the system was running down and collapsing. Mrs. Thatcher became the leader of the Conservative Party in February 1975, and she clearly wanted…
— Kenneth Baker, Baron Baker of Dorking
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When I was a child I used to read books by Gerald Durrell, who founded Jersey Zoo. He had a job collecting animals for zoos…
— Melvin Burgess
Who Wrote These Mrs Quotes
296 authors contributed a total of 411 Mrs Quotes, led by these top contributors: