The proper union of gin and vermouth is a great and sudden glory; it is one of the happiest marriages on earth, and one of the shortest lived.
Bernard De VotoAbout author
- Author's profession: Writer
- Nationality: american
- Born: January 11, 1897
- Died: November 13, 1955
Related Authors
Topics
Quotes currently Trending
The officious swagger in her gait might have been some flavor of self-possession or the cool skedaddle of a shoplifter making for the door. In either case, the streamer of toilet paper that trailed from the waistband of her tiny skirt like the banner of an advertising airplane pretty much spoiled the effect.
Michael Chabon
He was directly invited to join their party, but he declined it, observing that he could imagine but two motives for their choosing to walk up and down the room together, with either of which motives his joining them would interfere. "What could he mean? She was dying to know what could be his meaning?"--and asked Elizabeth whether she could at all understand him? "Not at all," was her answer; "but depend upon it, he means to be severe on us, and our surest way of disappointing him will be to...
Jane Austen
![Samantha Morton quote: "My family don't watch a lot of what I do. Films are a bit too..."](/pic/227089/600x316/quotation-samantha-morton-my-family-dont-watch-a-lot-of-what-i-do-films.jpg)
![Miranda Lambert quote: "People naturally change a lot during their 20s, so my songs..."](/pic/70201/600x316/quotation-miranda-lambert-people-naturally-change-a-lot-during-their-20s.jpg)