Quotes About Bonbons

#1. Manners are not like bonbons, Nina. You may not choose the ones that suit you best; and you certainly cannot put the half-bitten ones back in the box. . . ." Nina

Amor Towles

#2. I spend my days watching soap operas, eating bonbons and plotting society's downfall.

Tana French

#3. People have this idea that opera singers are overweight and sit at home eating bonbons. But I consider myself an athlete.

Sondra Radvanovsky

#4. Someone is putting brandy in your bonbons, Grand Marnier in your breakfast jam, Kahlua in your ice cream, Scotch in your mustard and Wild Turkey in your cake.

Marian Burros

#5. My mother 'gave teas' the way other mothers breathed. Her own mother 'gave teas.' All of their friends 'gave teas,' each involving butter cookies extruded from a metal press and pastel bonbons ordered from See's.

Joan Didion

#6. Life is to be used, not just held in the hand like a box of bonbons that nobody eats.

John Dos Passos

#7. Just because you're a different size doesn't mean you're sitting on the couch eating bonbons all day long watching TV.

Carre Otis

#8. dressed in pajamas, snatched from sleep, and dead before she ever had a chance to wake up.

Kayti Nika Raet

#9. As I continued through Cicero's pages, I found much more material celebrating my way of life ...

Charlie Munger

#10. A Mexican border town just across the line from Brownsville, Texas, one of the most dangerous places on earth.

David Baldacci

#11. Alas the Church of England! What with Popery on one hand, and schismatics on the other, how has she been crucified between two thieves!

Daniel Defoe

#12. Lost in a crowd of greats, not a single Oscar. That's showbiz.

Maureen O'Hara

#13. A woman who is praying and a woman who is having fun, they both say " Oh My God", the only difference is how they pronounce it.

M.F. Moonzajer

#14. Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.

Thomas Mann

#15. And the Austrian army, awfully arrayed, boldly, by battery, besieged Belgrade.

Patrick Leigh Fermor

#16. Sunken gardens should be laid out under the supervision of an intelligent landscape architect; and even then should have a reason for being sunken other than a whim or increase in costliness.

Alice Morse Earle

#17. Gay people represent art. Start allowing gay people to be beaten in the street then you allow art to be beaten in the street. History has taught us where that leads.

Robert Black

#18. It is well not to lend too easy an ear to accusations.

Publilius Syrus

#19. I'm kind of lazy. I like to lie around with my husband and watch TV and stuff like that.

Gwen Stefani

#20. Phoenix wouldn't stop looking at me like he was looking through a telescope. It was unsettling, being stared at like I was the most beautiful thing in space.

Briana Pacheco

#21. Once you begin watching spiders, you haven't time for much else.

E.B. White

#22. I do not believe that the way paint is applied should be more important than what is portrayed.

Burton Silverman