Mrs Quotes

LORD ILLINGWORTH: The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. MRS ALLONBY: And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy. (Oscar Wilde)
Welcome to President Bush, Mrs. Bush, and my fellow astronauts. View quote
Dan Quayle
Mrs. Montagu has dropt me. Now, Sir, there are people whom one should like very well to drop, but would not wish to be dropped by. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Mrs. Ballinger is one of the ladies who pursue Culture in bands, as though it were dangerous to meet it alone. View quote
Edith Wharton
LORD ILLINGWORTH. The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. MRS ALLONBY. It ends with Revelations. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Good evening Mr and Mrs America, from border to border and coast to coast and all the ships at sea. Let's go to press. View quote
Walter Winchell
Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself. View quote
Virginia Woolf
Mrs. Hopewell had no bad qualities of her own but she was able to use other people's in such a constructive way that she never felt the lack. View quote
Flannery O’Connor
Mrs. Ape's famous hymn, There ain't no flies on the Lamb of God. View quote
Evelyn Waugh
No matter how many modern parts I do, people still refer to me as Mrs. Costume Drama. View quote
Helena Bonham Carter
Don't go into Mr. McGregor's garden: your father had an accident there; he was put in a pie by Mrs. McGregor. (Beatrix Potter)
My first singing role was as Susanna in a school production in a shortened form of Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro. I loved to sing and I was given lots of encouragement by a wonderful music teacher Mrs Ann Hill and by my parents who suggested I go to drama school. View quote
Elaine Paige
If there's a trick to doing a job you hate... Mrs. Clark says it's to find a job you hate even more. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
Rosemary and Guy Woodhouse had signed a lease on a five-room apartment in a geometric white house on First Avenue when they received word, from a woman named Mrs. Cortez, that a four-room apartment in the Bramford had become available. View quote
Ira Levin
Paddy Ashdown is the only party leader who's a trained killer. Though, to be fair, Mrs Thatcher was self taught. View quote
Charles Kennedy
The state owned monopolies are among the greatest millstones round the neck of the economy...Liberals must stress at all times the virtues of the market, not only for efficiency but to enable the widest possible choice...Much of what Mrs Thatcher and Sir Keith Joseph say and do is in the mainstream of liberal philosophy. View quote
Jo Grimond
Will you be wanting to contest the divorce?" I asked Mrs. Davis. "I should think not," she said calmly, "although I suppose on of us should, for the fun of the thing. An uncontested divorce always seems to me contrary to the spirit of divorce. View quote
Donald Barthelme
Mr. Knightley seemed to be trying not to smile; and succeeded without difficulty, upon Mrs. Elton's beginning to talk to him. View quote
Jane Austen
Mrs. Jennings was a widow, with an ample jointure. She had only two daughters, both of whom she had lived to see respectably married, and she had now therefore nothing to do but to marry all the rest of the world. View quote
Jane Austen
Mrs Dalloway is always giving parties to cover the silence. View quote
Virginia Woolf
I never ask my wife about my flaws. Instead I try to get her to ignore them and concentrate on my sense of humor. You don't want any woman to look under the carpet because there's lots of flaws underneath. Joanne believes my character in a film we did together, "Mr. and Mrs. Bridge" comes closest to who I really am. I personally don't think there's one character who comes close... but I learned a long time ago not to disagree on things that I don't have a solid opinion about. (Paul Newman)
In the midst of this sublime and terrible storm at Sidmouth, Dame Partington, who lived upon the beach, was seen at the door of her house with mop and pattens, trundling her mop, squeezing out the sea-water, and vigorously pushing away the Atlantic Ocean. The Atlantic was roused Mrs. Partington's spirit was up. But I need not tell you that the contest was unequal the Atlantic Ocean beat Mrs. Partington. View quote
Sydney Smith
Paul patted Mrs. O'Leary's snout. The living room shook -BOOM, BOOM, BOOM-which either meant a SWAT team was breaking down the door or Mrs. O'Leary was wagging her tail. I couldn't help but smile. View quote
Rick Riordan
Mrs. O' Leary is my pet. I couldn't let you stick a sword in her rump, now, could I? That might've scared her. View quote
Rick Riordan
The business of Mr. Bennett's life was to keep his daughters alive. The business of Mrs. Bennett's was to get them married. View quote
Seth Grahame-Smith