Be or not to be Quote by Mignon McLaughlin

“In a way, she was right. But while she talked, she stared hungrily at the Didot in my hands. They all did, with the…

— Maya Bode

I have an idea that the phrase weaker sex was coined by some woman to disarm some man she was preparing to overwhelm.

— Ogden Nash

Sir, if you were my husband, I would poison your drink.

— Nancy Astor

“No woman who had been intimate with a god was easily disturbed.”

— Michael Cadnum

If you want something done, ask a busy person.

— Benjamin Franklin

“Here’s to a tasty lunch,” she says, winking at me. It’s the strangest thing, but I actually feel my body respond to her. Beneath…

— Felicity Brandon

“But now I saw with fresh conviction that is was us, all of us, who were failing, and the hallmark of our failure was…

— Jane Smiley

I read hungrily and delightedly, and have realized since that you can’t write unless you read.

— William Trevor

“How hungrily we read about ourselves!”

— Gore Vidal

I fall into books the way I fall into lust - wholly, hungrily.

— Rebecca McClanahan

The question is not "To be or not to be," it is what we should be until we are not.

— Soren Kierkegaard

"To be or not to be is" [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend. I understand it on a superficial level, but the…

— Al Pacino