Menyatakan In English Quotes & Sayings

We can easily forgive want of means; but littleness, with means, is disgusting. — Anne-Therese De Marguenat De Courcelles

If he had but a little more brains, she thought to herself, I might make something of him; but she never let him perceive the opinion she had of him; listened with indefatigable complacency to his stories of the stable and the mess; laughed at all his jokes...When he came home, she was alert and happy; when he went out she pressed him to go; when he stayed at home, she played and sang for him, made him good drinks, superintended his dinner, warmed his slippers, and steeped his soul in comfort. The best of women {I have heard my grandmother say) are hypocrites. We don't know how much they hide from us: how watchful they are when they seem most artless and confidential: how often those frank smile which they wear so easily are traps to cajole or elude or disarm--I don't mean in your mere coquettes, but your domestic models and paragons of female virute. — William Makepeace Thackeray

You know you'd rather read about me than experience me in person. Why pretend? — Jonathan Franzen

When fortune empties her chamber pot on your head, smile and say We are going to have a summer shower. — John A. Macdonald

I leaned my forehead against his. I will repay you in unspeakable physical favors if you can erase any trace of this party from my memory. — Molly Harper