"Maybe the greatest favour a spouse can tender……" — Lionel Shriver

"Maybe the greatest favour a spouse can tender is to overlook what you can't."

— Lionel Shriver

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66 Quotes by Lionel Shriver

Lionel Shriver has 66 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Life is never easy so that is why I never lie about my age. I want credit for every damned…
In the big picture I write for an audience of people I've never met. By the final draft I'm looking…
We need to recognise that slowing population growth is one of the most cost-effective and reliable ways of easing pressure…
Time itself made all things rare.
When you've been afraid of something for long enough and it comes to pass, the terrible thing is a release.…
A successful lie cannot be brought into this world and capriciously abandoned; like any committed relationship, it must be maintained,…
Built like an oak tree, against which I could pitch my pillow and read; mornings, I could curl into the…
...You can only subject people to anguish who have a conscience. You can only punish people who have hopes to…
You were ambitious - for your life, what it was like when you woke up in the morning, and not…
There is one province in which, sooner or later, virtually everyone gets dealt a leading role--hero, heroine, or villain.... Unlike…
Now, bitterly, with one sweep of the front door, the compassion was spent. To the degree that Lawrence's face was…
Yet Irina had once tucked away, she wasn't sure when or why, that happiness is almost definitionally a condition of…

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When I took the habit, the Lord immediately showed me how He favours those who do violence to themselves in… — Teresa of Avila
Being trendy is dangerous. I've never been trendy, which is why I've never really fallen out of favour. — David Bailey
On the recollection of so many and great favours and blessings, I now, with a high sense of gratitude, presume… — William Bartram
I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control. — Alan Bennett
For some years I deserted religion in favour of Marxism. The republic of goodness seemed more attainable than the Kingdom… — Lionel Blue
It is not Christian to go against someone. I am in favour of life. — Andrea Bocelli
I am all in favour of democracy in Iraq. — John Bolton
I got a hundred bucks says my baby beats Pete's baby. I just think genetics are in my favour. — Andre Agassi
There's another way we are getting behind business - by sorting out the banks. Taxpayers bailed you out. Now it's… — David Cameron
I go on giving interviews because I've been brought up to support the projects I'm involved in. When you've enjoyed… — Francesca Annis
Most of us at the Reserve Bank come from a background in economics and hence have a predisposition in favour… — Ian Macfarlane
Crossing at a ford occurs often in a man's lifetime. It means setting sail even though your friends stay in… — Miyamoto Musashi

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