Barbara Pym Quotes

How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it.

Barbara Pym

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: June 2, 1913 - January 11, 1980

Topics

LoveYourselfTryDeliciousAbsurd

I love Chicago, but in a lot of ways it's a disappointment. You can work there for years and years, and because you're in Chicago, you don't get the recognition. It has some of the best theater in the country, but when they shoot a movie there, they bring in all their actors.

John Malkovich

WorkLoveBestDisappointmentYou

A mayor is a symbol and a public face of what a city bureaucracy provides its citizens.

John Hickenlooper

CityFaceBureaucracyMayorCitizens

My mother is a special education teacher but also an artist, and my father an advertising executive. They are about as wacky as you can get without being alcoholics.

Sloane Crosley

EducationFatherMotherTeacherYou

I got nasty habits; I take tea at three.

Mick Jagger

TeaThreeNastyTakeGotHabits

The King of Spain displayed his esteem for me in a manner that I confess flattered me pleasantly when, after the death of Don Luis de Haro, he stated publicly in front of all the foreign ambassadors that he wanted to follow my example in not having a prime minister any longer.

Louis XIV

DeathKingMeFollowPrimeSpain

Serving 27 million Texans spread across 254 counties and two time zones isn't a job for those who require a lot of sleep.

Don Willett

TimeJobSleepTwoServingSpread

Thinking good thoughts is not enough, doing good deeds is not enough, seeing others follow your good examples is enough.

Douglas Horton

GoodThoughtsThinkingDoingEnough

You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.

Booker T. Washington

ManYouDownHimWithoutHold

I paint. I have been painting since I was kid. If I hadn't gone into radio when I did, I probably would have come out of the Army, gone into the art business, and probably would have flopped because I'm not that great.

Bob Elliott

BusinessGreatArtPaintingArmy

I like writing and don't confine myself to just the words or just the music. But I don't particularly write songs with myself in mind.

Aretha Franklin

MusicMyselfWordsMindWriting

The general revolt of a Nation cannot be called a Rebellion.

Algernon Sidney

RebellionNationCannotGeneral

I have so many people out there that celebrate with me when they know that I'm happy. And they hate it when they know that I'm suffering because someone has hurt me.

Shakira

HateHappyPeopleSufferingMeHurt

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