Quotes & Sayings About Bedfellows

Perhaps dirt is the necessary condition of beauty ... Perhaps hygiene and art can never be bedfellows. No Verdi, after all, without spitting into trumpets. No Duse without a crowd of malodorous bourgeois giving one another their coryzas. And think of the inexpugnable retreats for microbes prepared by Michelangelo in the curls of Moses' beard! — Aldous Huxley

Politics makes strange bedfellows. — Charles Dudley Warner

Ancient wisdom and quantum physicists make unlikely bedfellows: In quantum mechanics the observer determines (or even brings into being) what is observed, and so, too, for the Tiwis, who dissolve the distinction between themselves and the cosmos. In quantum physics, subatomic particles influence each other from a distance, and this tallies with the aboriginal view, in which people, animals, rocks, and trees all weave together in the same interwoven fabric. — Huston Smith

We talk a bit, until Tess is sufficiently calm, and then I take her upstairs and see her snuggled back into bed with Cyclops and one of Maura's romance novels. Strange bedfellows, but both seem to comfort her, and it serves to remind me again that she is a strange mix of woman and child, carrying a burden far too heavy for her. — Jessica Spotswood

Psychology and art are never easy bedfellows. — Steve Merrick

War makes strange bedfellows. — Helen Thomas

Politics makes estranged bedfellows. — Goodman Ace

Democracy and tyranny are not distant relatives. They're bedfellows."

-General John James
Commandant, USMC
December 11th, 2032 — L. Douglas Hogan

Economic libertarians and Christian evangelicals, united by their common enemy, are strange bedfellows in today's Republican party, just as the two Georges - the archconservative Wallace and the uberliberal McGovern - found themselves in the same Democratic Party in 1972. — Steven Pinker

Be lucky, Xander, and be brave. You will find that bravery and luck are often bedfellows. — David Gemmell

Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows. — Michel De Montaigne

War did indeed make strange bedfellows of people. — Kate Atkinson

Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows — Nick Bantock

In a sense, the music business and I haven't always been the best of bedfellows. Artists often have to fight their corner. Your music goes through these filters of record labels and media, and you're hoping you'll find someone who'll help you get your work into the world. — Annie Lennox

The reason politics makes strange bedfellows is because they all like the same bunk. — Los Angeles Times

For corporations to be bedfellows with the arts is good business for both. The architecture that houses a company is a more visible statement than the president's in the annual report. Ditto interiors, particularly of offices and sometimes, dramatically, in plants. For solvent businesses, support of community cultural undertakings in music, drama, dance creates great goodwill. Also, the existence of such activities is often important to the executives and their families that companies want to keep or attract to keep. — Malcolm Forbes

The associations get only richer and more intense when you realise that the very concept of truth - the cornerstone of philosophy and religion alike, let alone law - also rests heavily on the meaning of waking up. And you don't need a philosopher to appreciate it, because there are clues to its dependency in everyday phrases such as 'waking up to the truth', 'my eyes were opened' and even 'wake up and smell the coffee'. If such phrases hint that waking up and truth are bedfellows of some sort, you need only go back to the ancient Greek for corroboration. There you'll find that the word truth is 'aletheia', from which in English we get the word for 'lethargy'. But see how the Greek word is 'a-letheia' rather than letheia - that is truth is the opposite of lethargy. And what is opposite of lethargy, if not waking up? — Robert Rowland Smith

Poverty has strange bedfellows. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Adversity makes strange bedfellows. — William Shakespeare

Skepticism is history's bedfellow. — Edgar Saltus

love and logic are the poorest of bedfellows. — Robert J. Crane

Perhaps Bach and Beethoven are strange bedfellows for Mickey Mouse, but it's all been a lot of fun. — Walt Disney Company

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does. — Groucho Marx

Politics make strange bedfellows. — Charles Dudley Warner

FAITH and FEAR make poor bedfellows. Where one is found, the other cannot exist. — Napoleon Hill

Celebrity and charity have been bedfellows for many years. The key is to try and choose practical, sound and effective ones. There is no shortage of solicitation for endorsement, so you have to really know what you're getting behind and be passionate about it. In this case, aside from just being a spokesperson, they're benefiting a form of expression that is dear to me, painting. — Billy Zane

War makes strangers bedfellows ... — Kathleen Winsor

Tragedy makes for strange bedfellows. — Lorraine Heath

I like to piece together different guitarists, unlikely bedfellows. You have Jonny Greenwood playing next to Nile Rodgers on the same track, so it becomes like an orchestra of sounds. — Bryan Ferry

Religion makes strange bedfellows. — Bernard Cornwell

Libraries make strange bedfellows — Phyllis Rose

The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship. — Marcel Achard

Well, Kaleb's voice whispered in Nikita's mind, it seems this will make strange bedfellows out of us all. — Nalini Singh

Sexual attraction makes the strangest bedfellows of all. — Mason Cooley

Art and business may be strange bedfellows, but an artist must make room in her bed for both. — Eric Maisel

Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows. — William Shakespeare

...the thing ['Bedfellows'] didn't come out as clear as I would have liked, but nothing I write ever does. — E.B. White

Humour and high seriousness ... Perfect bedfellows, I think. Though I usually phrase it in terms of comedy and darkness. Comedy without darkness rapidly becomes trivial. And darkness without comedy rapidly becomes unbearable. — Mark Haddon

Rebellion makes for queer bedfellows. And none more queer than this fat man and me, — George R R Martin

Luck is only my lover, not my wife," replied Bahktiaan easily. He drew his saber. "If ever I wed, it will be skill and intelligence."
"Tedious bedfellows," said Sergi. — Kate Elliott

There's a huge cloud of shame around art and business being seen as bedfellows. — Amanda Palmer

What an alliance, huh? A Dark-Hunter and a Spathi united to guard an Apollite. Who would have ever imagined? (Wulf)
Love makes strange bedfellows. (Acheron)
I thought that was politics. (Wulf)
It's both. (Acheron) — Sherrilyn Kenyon