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Virginia Graham Quotes & Sayings

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Famous Quotes By Virginia Graham

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For some of us life always comes C.O.D. — Virginia Graham

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Be blind. Be stupid. Be British. Be careful. — Virginia Graham

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For a driver to be driven by somebody else is an ordeal, for there are only three types of drivers: the too fast, the timid and oneself. — Virginia Graham

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Say something idiotic and nobody but a dog politely wags his tail. — Virginia Graham

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Maturity gives us jealous eyes. We look with jealousy on the younger woman because she doesn't know as much now as we do, and, oh, what we could do with our wisdom and her face. — Virginia Graham

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In society it is etiquette for ladies to have the best chairs and get handed things. In the home the reverse is the case. This is why ladies are more sociable than gentlemen. — Virginia Graham

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I have the perfect face for radio. — Virginia Graham

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When we travel, most of us take too much. I always work on the assumption that I'm going to take everything with me because I don't want the second wife to have anything if the plane crashes. — Virginia Graham

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On the whole, and providing one is in good spirits and feeling reasonably bright, it is not hard to converse for a short space of time on subjects about which one knows little, and it is indeed often amusing to see how cunningly one can steer the conversational barque, hoisting and lowering her sails, tacking this way and that to avoid reefs, and finally racing feverishly for home with the outboard engine making a loud and cheerful noise. — Virginia Graham

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Suppose you invest time and effort in designing a new image for yourself. You get home and your husband takes one look and screams, 'Was the other person hurt? I see you've been in a head-on collision.' ... Men hate any change. — Virginia Graham

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It is not done to let anybody be too happy. The moment two people seem to be enjoying one another's company, a good hostess introduces a third element or removes the first. — Virginia Graham

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The women sit, getting colder and colder, on a seat getting harder and harder, watching oafs, getting muddier and muddier. — Virginia Graham

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There are some composers - at the head of whom stands Beethoven - who not only do not know when to stop but appear to stop many times before they actually do. — Virginia Graham

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You cannot find comfort in ducks.
Stoop to look into those beady brown eyes,
and they will tell you nothing.

- The Bridge, St. James's Park — Virginia Graham

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When you're in bed to-night think not of wars,
But rather of the Panda fast asleep,
Her piebald head cushioned on woolly paws;
Or think of velvet mice that warmly creep

Into their holes to curl up round and soft.
Transfer your thoughts from bellicose affairs;
Though it be true that bombers fly aloft,
Try to reflect on little furry bears.

- Sleeping Mixture — Virginia Graham

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Good shot, bad luck and hell are the five basic words to be used in a game of tennis, though these, of course, can be slightly amplified. — Virginia Graham

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When some people retire, it's going to be mighty hard to be able to tell the difference. — Virginia Graham

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I am a living soap opera. — Virginia Graham

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England is the only civilised country in the world where it is etiquette to fall on the food like a wolf the moment it is served. Elsewhere it is comme il faut to wait until everybody has helped himself to everything and until everything on everybody's plate is stone cold. — Virginia Graham

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A woman is not really dressed unless she is wearing a hat. — Virginia Graham

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Conformity has been a devastating thing. Its ill effects continue right to this day. Customers still look at the woman in the next chair and say, 'I'll have what she has.' That's all right for ordering at a restaurant - but not in a beauty parlor. — Virginia Graham

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Committee meetings are always held at inconvenient times and usually take place in dark, dusty rooms the temperatures of which are unsuited to the human body. — Virginia Graham