"Although still viewed as lovely and alluring by many, Winston Churchill's mother shocked society when at 46 she married a man 20 years her junior. Most malicious of the many jibes launched at her was that of one lady who went about peering into perambulators. When asked her reason, she replied, "I am searching for my future husband.""

-- Anne Sebba

#Mother Quotes #Husband Quotes #Men Quotes

“I guess I have friends around me but when you're paying them can they ever really be true friends?”
“I didn't have an imaginary friend, and even if I did I'm sure it would have been derivative of something I saw on television.”
“You can see and feel everything in clothes.”
“This goin' ware glory waits ye haint one agreeable feetur.”
“Is that what I've become, a piece of meat?”
“I really love living in cities where the people living above, below and next to you are from totally different worlds to you.”

Source : "Interview: Rupert Friend Talks Directing Short Film Debut ‘Steve,’ Starring Knightley and Firth". Interview with Maggie Lange, www.indiewire.com. September 26, 2012.
“For 24 hours a day, for 10 years, all I thought about was being in a band. That's all I did. I had no other social life. I don't want my life to be like that now. I've spent the past 10 years having a real life as well. But Spandau Ballet is such a difficult shadow to outrun.”
“Yesterday, happiness came in suddenly, as it used to, and remained for a moment in the great, dark, silent drawing room.”

Source : Julien Green (1964). “Diary, 1928-1957”, London, Collins

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