Quotes About Wallis Simpson

#1. In England especially, I've found that if you bring up King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson at a dinner party or a social gathering, it's like throwing a Molotov cocktail into the room.

Madonna Ciccone

#2. You cannot make progress with excuses.

Cam Newton

#3. No one will ever understand like I do. You're so different with me, baby. You take care of me. You make me feel safe. You're not who you think you are. Didn't you once tell me that people aren't just one thing? You're so much more to me than anything you might have done in the past.

Samantha Young

#4. I was a long time learning that wisdom and experience are things apart; that to taste life is not to be confused with understanding what life is really all about.

Wallis Simpson

#5. A Mr. (save, perhaps, some half dozen in the nation,) always needs a note of explanation.

Jane Austen

#6. I hate this place. I shall hate it to my grave.

Wallis Simpson

#7. I look a hundred and weigh 110 - you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me.

Wallis Simpson

#8. Sport hunting is a crime. My sympathies are with the fox.

Wallis Simpson

#9. I'm not a beautiful woman. I'm nothing to look at, so the only thing I can do is dress better than anyone else.

Wallis Simpson

#10. I have always had the courage for the new things that life sometimes offers.

Wallis Simpson

#11. You have no idea how hard it is to live out a great romance.

Wallis Simpson

#12. I knew that the Name was still with him, animating his soul, even as his body failed.

Geraldine Brooks

#13. A marriage, even one that goes awry, generates claims and needs that persist like an afterglow long after the emotional fire is burned out.

Wallis Simpson

#14. There can be nothing more baffling in a human relationship than silence, the dark loom of doubts and questions unexpressed.

Wallis Simpson

#15. There is a peacefulness, an air of reflection, about a rocking-chair that attaches to no other moving object ...

Wallis Simpson

#16. Giving opens the way for receiving.

Florence Scovel Shinn

#17. Fortunately for the human race, pain, however piercing, is not a lasting emotion. The recollection of happiness lingers, but the consciousness never retains for long the first thrust of tragic loss. The details of daily life crowd in upon the mind.

Wallis Simpson

#18. The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life. It is present in the infinity of forms and phenomena that exist in all of creation.

Michael Jackson

#19. I have a kitten. He said for lack of anything else and hoping it would stop her from hitting him full on with her Louisville Slugger.

Dominique Eastwick

#20. For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat.

Wallis Simpson

#21. The real essence of any marriage that has struggled, however unsuccessfully, towards happiness, lies in the growth of a wordless understanding that what is acceptable to one partner will be acceptable to the other.

Wallis Simpson

#22. On resigning as collaborator on the memoirs of the former Wallis Warfield Simpson, new summaries, 6 October 1955. You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.

Cleveland Amory

#23. Never explain, never complain.

Wallis Simpson

#24. I am so anxious for you not to abdicate and I think the fact that you do is going to put me in the wrong light to the entire world because they will say that I could have prevented it.

Wallis Simpson

#25. There can be no summary and dramatic end to a marriage - only a slow and painful unravelling of a tangled skein of threads too stubborn to be broken.

Wallis Simpson

#26. They can only hurt you if you let them.

Wallis Warfield Simpson

#27. Forgive me for not writing but this man is exhausting.

Wallis Simpson

#28. I went home and they seemed ... my parents seemed normal. They didn't seem to feel like somehow they had been victims of some Nazi camp or something.

Sheena Iyengar

#29. PS: It's all gossip about the prince. I'm not in the habit of taking my girlfriends' beaux.

Wallis Simpson

#30. Music is such an important part of my life.

Blake Mycoskie

#31. Time was made for slaves.

John Baldwin Buckstone

#32. You can never be too rich or too thin.

Wallis Simpson

#33. Through the music I hope to give it an arc that gives it a greater sense of a journey through the set rather than a bunch of songs.

Gotye

#34. Radio affects most intimately, person-to-perso n, offering a world of unspoken communication between writer-speaker and the listener

Marshall McLuhan

#35. I never make a trip to the United States without visiting a supermarket. To me they are more fascinating than any fashion salon.

Wallis Simpson

#36. If done correctly, strengthening our trade relationship with India will create jobs here in America.

Ami Bera

#37. Everyone is entitled to a home where the sun, the stars, open fields, giant trees, and smiling flowers are free to teach an undisturbed lesson of life.

Jens Jensen

#38. The universe is a communion of subjects, not a collection of objects.

Thomas Berry