George Etherege Quotes

#1. I understand. You work very hard two days a week and you need a five-day weekend. That's normal.

Neil Simon

#2. The anti-feminism bacllash has been set off not by women's achievement of full equality but by the increased possibility that they might win it. It is a pre-emptive strike that stops women long before they reach the finishing line.

Susan Faludi

#3. You were not built for comfort and convenience. You were built to overcome.

Cory Booker

#4. I must confess I am a fop in my heart; ill customs influence my very senses, and I have been so used to affectation that without the help of the air of the court what is natural cannot touch me.

George Etherege

#5. All writing comes by the grace of God.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#6. We are not masters of our own affections; our inclinations dailyalter: now we love pleasure, and anon we shall dote on business. Human frailty will have it so, and who can help it?

George Etherege

#7. Trouble is a sieve through which we sift our acquaintances. Those too big to pass through are our friends.

Arlene Francis

#8. When love grows diseased, the best thing we can do is to put it to a violent death; I cannot endure the torture of a lingering and consumptive passion.

George Etherege

#9. Next to coming to a good understanding with a new mistress, I love a quarrel with an old one.

George Etherege

#10. Writing, madam, is a mechanic part of wit. A gentleman should never go beyond a song or a billet.

George Etherege

#11. You sign an agreement; you make a contract, you live up to it. You never get what you deserve. You get what you negotiate. You got a right to say yay or nay.

Don King

#12. The only problem was that I couldn't communicate with Dario. He speaks Italian and I don't. We had a translator the whole time. I just felt that something was lost with the go between. He was a delightful man, but I wish we could have spoken the same language.

Kim Hunter

#13. What if the beauty around us is meant as a reminder for the many gifts we have been given and our need to give thanks to them?

P.C. Cast