Auntie Quote by Morley Safer

Interestingly, the actress who, in her own persona, may be gentle, shy, and socially awkward, someone whose hand trembles when pouring a cup of…

— Wallace Shawn

“Wealthy old woman + devious imagination - restraint = Aunt Agatha”

— Maya Rodale

I am fairly certain that my independent, high-spirited grandmother must have had a childhood similar to Betsy Ray'sAs I read about the School Entertainment…

— Ann M. Martin

“Women in movies from Hollywood's golden era dressed the way my mother did now. My entire childhood, she'd shown up at PTA meeting in…

— Jerry Stahl

One of my fantasies is to produce 'Auntie Mame' as a play.

— Zac Posen

“Aunt Alexandra was fanatical on the subject of my attire. I could not possibly hope to be a lady if I wore breeches, when…

— Harper Lee

[The woman] paused and seemed to take a deep breath. 'You see,' she declared. 'I am Tom Mallow's aunt.' Catherine's first instinct was to…

— Barbara Pym

“England is a jolly sight too small for anyone to live in with Aunt Agatha, if she's really on the warpath.”

— P.G. Wodehouse

This was not Aunt Dahlia, my good and kindly aunt, but my Aunt Agatha, the one who chews broken bottles and kills rats with…

— Anonymous

I did one of the first interviews with Mrs Thatcher. I think, from memory, she came across then as a sort of wishy-washy European.

— Angela Rippon

“As Victorian-era prudishness set in, some upstanding citizens also took to putting coverlets over the instrument’s legs out of an exaggerated sense of modesty.”

— Stuart Isacoff

“her, say she would about her background, or even her family, as they were used to the barbs of the aristocracy. But to speak…

— Ellie St. Clair