Landlady Quotes

#1. To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one's landlady.

Albert Camus

#2. The landlady of a boarding-house is a parallelogram - that is, an oblong angular figure, which cannot be described, but which is equal to anything.

Stephen Leacock

#3. Within a year Ivan Dmitritch was completely forgotten in the town, and his books, heaped up by his landlady in a sledge in the shed, were pulled to pieces by boys.

Anton Chekhov

#4. And I walked into a dark hall
where the landlady stood
execrating and final,
sending me to hell,
waving her fat, sweaty arms
and screaming
screaming for rent
because the world had failed us
both.

Charles Bukowski

#5. The pretty landlady was desolate. She would have taken D'Artagnan not only as her husband, but as her God, he was so handsome and had so fierce a mustache. Then

Alexandre Dumas

#6. Queen Victoria - a mixture of national landlady and actress.

V.S. Pritchett

#7. I know how to handle women who act like ladies, but my landlady ain't no lady. Sometimes I even wish I was living with my wife again so I could have my own place and not have no landladies.

Langston Hughes

#8. Boarding-House Geometry DEFINITIONS AND AXIOMS All boarding-houses are the same boarding-house. Boarders in the same boarding-house and on the same flat are equal to one another. A single room is that which has no parts and no magnitude. The landlady of a boarding-house is a

Stephen Leacock

#9. He was hopelessly in debt to his landlady, and was afraid of meeting her.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#10. I couldn't wait to meet his cherry-popping, cougar pimp landlady again. Said no one ever.

Linda Kage

#11. His landlady came to the door, loosely wrapped in dressing gown and shawl; her husband followed ejaculating.

Mary Shelley

#12. To be famous, in fact, one has to kill one's landlady.

Albert Camus

#13. Where does a man get inspiration to write a song like that? Well, he gets it from the landlady once a month.

John Michael Hayes

#14. Seated in a car full of women, squashed between his six-foot landlady and Sybil Underwood, having to listen to them talk nonstop all the way to Atlanta and back, was too much for him to bear.

Fannie Flagg

#15. His fair landlady was in despair. She would most willingly have made M. d'Artagnan her husband
such a handsome man, and such a fierce mustache!

Alexandre Dumas

#16. My landlady, who is only a tailor's widow, reads her Milton; and tells me, that her late husband first fell in love with her on this very account: because she read Milton with such proper emphasis.

Karl Philipp Moritz

#17. By late autumn the yard would grow thick with fallen leaves, causing the landlady to heave many deep sighs.

Takashi Hiraide

#18. Public work brings a vicarious but assured sense of immortality. We may be poor, weak, timid, in debt to our landlady, bullied by our nieces, stiff in the joints, shortsighted and distressed; we shall perish, but the cause endures; the cause is great.

Winifred Holtby

#19. It had to be the most surreal, embarrassing, awkward moment of his life, standing petrified in his mother's backyard in front of a broken lawn mower, sporting a woody and discussing sex for sale with the landlady.

Linda Kage

#20. But the landlady is a fat, ugly, mean, stupid, unwashed, misanthropic, cheap, drunken bag of garbage. And you may have noticed that I very seldom use profanity, so I can't describe her as well as I might.

Edward Albee

#21. Repeatedly Yates went berserk - raging over grievances old and new, hurling furniture at phantoms out of his past. The nurses who lived upstairs complained about the racket to the landlady, an eccentric woman who adored Yates and did nothing.

Blake Bailey

#22. mug before him. 'Here she is,' the landlady turned

Kaye Dobbie

#23. I like 'Goodbye My Lover' because it's a really personal song and I recorded it in my landlady's bathroom in Los Angeles. She had a piano in there and for me listening back to it, it actually sounds like the voice I hear in my head. It's so close to what I can imagine.

James Blunt

#24. We attract to our lives what we desire most and our intent enhances our ability to ascend or may serve as a one-way-ticket to the lowest levels of conscientiousness where many enter and few to none come out.

Seraphine Abrams

#25. A healthy community is one in which the elderly protect, care for, love and assist the younger ones to provide continuity and hope.

Maggie Kuhn

#26. Let us don our armor of control."-Lady Berwick

Lisa Kleypas

#27. I heard we see the world not as it is, but as we are.

Neil Gaiman

#28. I've concluded that while nobody plans to mess up their life, the problem is that a few of us plan not to. That is, we don't put the necessary safeguards in place to ensure a happy ending.

Andy Stanley

#29. giving children something with which to surprise their parents is one of the greatest gifts a teacher can bestow.

Richard Dawkins

#30. Love for the Lord, love for His servants the missionaries. Missionary work is a work of love and trust, and it has to be done on that basis.

Gordon B. Hinckley