Harold Robbins famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

There's something luxurious about having a girl light your cigarette. In fact, I got married once on account of that.
-- Harold Robbins

#Girl #Light #Smoking
People are not like a business. You canâ€™t buy and sell them like so much property. You canâ€™t lock them up in a vault and expect them to appreciate it.
-- Harold Robbins

#People #Appreciate #Locks
Hemingway was a jerk.
-- Harold Robbins

#Witty #Humorous #Jerk
Sex got me into trouble from the age of fifteen: I'm hoping that by the time I'm seventy I'll straighten it out.
-- Harold Robbins

#Sex #Age #Fifteen
I won't leave any unfinished manuscripts.
-- Harold Robbins

#Unfinished
The Carpetbaggers was the first big money I made. Money gave me a lot of freedom, but no matter how much you make there's always somebody chasing your ***** for more.
-- Harold Robbins

#Matter #Firsts #Ass
I've always found it much more dangerous to fool with a man's mistress than his wife.
-- Harold Robbins

#Women #Wife #Mistress
Hemmingway was a jerk.
-- Harold Robbins

#Jerk

Let me explain it to you then. I just had a beautiful girl trust me enough to touch her and see her in a way no one else ever has. I got to hold her and watch her and feel her as she came apart in my arms. It was like nothing else I'd ever experienced. She was breathtaking and she was responding to me. She wanted me. I was the one making her spiral out of control.
In the light of what Proust wrote with so mild a stimulus, it is the world's loss that he did not have a heartier appetite. On a dozen Gardiner's Island oysters, a bowl of clam chowder, a peck of steamers, some bay scallops, three sauteed soft-shelled crabs, a few ears of fresh picked corn, a thin swordfish steak of generous area, a pair of lobsters, and a Long Island Duck, he might have written a masterpiece.
Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done.
Being around some of the bright lights of the technology world and having them expect great things helps you sit down and do it seriously.
Reflection is the lamp of the heart. If it departs, the heart will have no light.
The purely righteous do not complain of the dark, but increase the light; they do not complain of evil, but increase justice; they do not complain of heresy, but increase faith; they do not complain of ignorance, but increase wisdom.
I applaud the American Cancer Society for all they do to eradicate smoking. Their local, state and national efforts help to discourage young people from taking up this deadly habit and the resources they provide have helped numerous smokers quit.
Allen Carr's Easy Way to Stop Smoking Program achieved for me a thing that I thought was not possible - to give up a thirty year smoking habit literally overnight. It was nothing short of a miracle.
I gave up smoking, I never gave up the drinking. But it's hard to smoke and swim at the same time. You'd get to the edge of the pool and all you'd be wanting is a cigarette when all you actually really want is oxygen. So I traded the smoke for the oxygen.
I tried to stop smoking cigarettes by telling myself I just didn't want to smoke, but I didn't believe myself

Harold Robbins famous quotes

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