Blanche Ebbutt Quotes

#1. Don't settle down into an "old married man" while you are still in the prime of life. Take your wife out and about; give parties; visit your friends; and you will keep much younger than if you settle into the smoking-jacket and slippers habit.

Blanche Ebbutt

#2. These various remedies, eugenic, educational, ethical, populist and socialist, all assume that either the voters are inherently competent to direct the course of affairs or that they are making progress towards such an ideal. I think [democracy] is a false ideal.

Walter Lippmann

#3. One is to a human and other is to adopt humanity

Qasim Raza Qadri

#4. I never, ever saw myself as glam because I didn't wear makeup ... my image is a plain leather jumpsuit, which is not glam at all. I've always seen myself as rock n' roll and not glam.

Suzi Quatro

#5. Don't forget to wish your husband good-morning when he sets off to the office. He will feel the lack of your good-bye kiss all day.

Blanche Ebbutt

#6. I love Louisiana fried fish, but it's all Martin Luther King, I can't go over there.

Vince Staples

#7. I have always believed there is great value in studying the flaws of mankind and men - even fictional characters. All of us are flawed. All of us are diminished by some form of prejudice and bias. If a fictional character is to be realistic, he must struggle with imperfections and weaknesses.

K. Lee Lerner

#8. Don't expect to know your husband inside and out within a month of marriage. For a long time you will be making discoveries; file them for future reference.

Blanche Ebbutt

#9. I thank the Lord for the night time.

Neil Diamond

#10. Don't forget to be your wife's best friend as well as her husband. True friendship in marriage does away with all sorts of trouble.

Blanche Ebbutt

#11. I got quite bored, serving in the bar. Since I was there, the customers wouldn't talk about women, and with half their subject matter denied them, it was: horses, silence; horses, silence.

Bernadette Devlin

#12. You may be a foreigner, but you have the heart of a Frenchman.

Joanne Harris

#13. I prefer big Oprah. I know Oprah wants to be skinny Oprah, but her head is too gigantic to fit on a skinny body. She has to accept that, like Kirstie Alley, she was meant to be ... ahm ... voluptuous!

Kathy Griffin

#14. Don't expect to drop into matrimonial harmony with the end of the honeymoon; you have not thoroughly learned to know each other's foibles by that time.

Blanche Ebbutt

#15. You get angry - death does that.

Annabella Sciorra

#16. In my next life, I want to be Jann Wenner.

Sean Patrick Maloney

#17. Nature shows me incredible beauty standing just beyond the rat race. It's always there if I'm open enough to see it.

Dewitt Jones

#18. Tom, I wonder' - upon which Mr. Gradgrind, who was the person overhearing, stepped forth into the light and said, 'Louisa, never wonder!

Anonymous

#19. Don't always refuse to go shopping with your wife. Of course it's a nuisance, but sometimes she honestly wants your advice, and you ought to be pleased to give it.

Blanche Ebbutt

#20. Writing a novel mimics what we bring to our journey of life. God is the great editor who purges the faulty, the awkward, and all the bits that are just plain wrong, so the optimal story can finally emerge.

Denise M. Baran-Unland