Dowagers Quotes

#1. But don't pull me down or strangle me, he replied: for the Misses Eshton were clinging about him now; and the two dowagers, in vast white wrappers, were bearing down on him like ships in full sail.

Charlotte Bronte

#2. In other words, the man at the ticket office had personally had intimate social and commercial progress with more nitwits, dowagers, traveling salesmen, conventioneers, old fogies, and outright jackasses than the entire population of the City of Brotherly Love. I

Joe Queenan

#3. Invariably dressed in black, the Countess was one of those dowagers whose natural natural independence of mind, authority of age, and impatience with the petty made her the ally of all irreverent youth.

Amor Towles

#4. As a friend once pointed out, the crotchety dowagers do tend to get all the best lines. That may be why I have so many of them in my books.

Lauren Willig

#5. In the window, I fantasize ... about providing grown-ups and children alike with the greatest gift of all: insight ...

David Rakoff

#6. Religion is bad, drugs are good.

Bill Maher

#7. I has told you five or six times,' he said, 'and the third will be the last.

Roald Dahl

#8. The stories are most often about justice. In her stories, those who commit injustice, or act tyrannically, come to no good. They are punished.

Marina Warner

#9. A tourist is an ugly human being

Jamaica Kincaid

#10. Because if we don't forgive those we love, then what is left? What is love if it's not loving our lovers even when they don't deserve it?

Fredrik Backman

#11. I wished I could read in their shrivelled faces and watery eyes, I wished I could hear in the bad French which came half through their pinched lips and half through their pointed noses, how the old ladies had got at least on to good terms with the uncanny beings which haunted the castle.

E.T.A. Hoffmann

#12. When I got into the music business in 1976, there weren't many women on the roster. As a woman, you don't complain; you work twice as hard, and you do your job.

Reba McEntire

#13. It takes some skill to spoil a breakfast - even the English can't do it.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#14. I'm outgoing. I like being social. But when I think I should be quiet, I am. And I don't think quiet is the right word. Respectful is more accurate. I want to be respectful of people and their space.?

Jose Bautista