English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:

Margaret Atwood Quotes

Cleverness is a quality a man likes to have in his wife as long as she is some distance away from him. Up close, he'll take kindness any day of the week, if there's nothing more alluring to be had.

Margaret Atwood

About author

Related Authors

Topics

Quotes currently Trending

I have reached the point where I know that as long as I sit down to write, the ideas will come. What they will be, I don't know. Robert B. Parker
It is a violation which has obsessed the tyrants of the twentieth century. They do not want simply to kill their opponents, but to liquidate them, to deny that they have ever existed. Helen Dunmore
John Adams quote: "They shall not be expected to acknowledge us until we have..."
They shall not be expected to acknowledge us until we have acknowledged ourselves. John Adams
What is more, sir," his lordship went on, "I believe I have a good idea of what you mean by 'professionalism.' It appears to mean getting one's way by cheating and manipulating. It appears to mean serving the dictates of greed and advantage rather than those of goodness and the desire to see justice prevail in the world. If that is the 'professionalism' you refer to, sir, I don't care much for it and have no wish to acquire it. Kazuo Ishiguro
It takes good clients to make a good advertising agency. Regardless of how much talent an ad agency may have, it is ineffective without good products and services to advertise. Morris Hite
Hannah More quote: "It's cheaper to pardon than to resent. Forgiveness saves the..."
It's cheaper to pardon than to resent. Forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, and the waste of spirit. Hannah More
What's interesting is that both men and women are struggling with this issue in remarkably similar percentages, but the big difference is that women tend to talk about this when men keep it silent. James Levine
Dave Chappelle quote: "Fame for me is like a place, a country I'm taking a tour through."
Fame for me is like a place, a country I'm taking a tour through. Dave Chappelle
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quote: "A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise."
A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
At least he's alive and well. I love him enough that I want that. I want him to have what's best for him." She sighed. "I just don't want to stick around to watch. Stephenie Meyer
Years ago, we all talked about recycling and not dumping things down your drain and all of that, but talking doesn't help much. Basically, it's going to have to be legislation because the impact is so huge and diversified. Ted Danson
Henry Ward Beecher quote: "What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the..."
What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin. Henry Ward Beecher
But the memory of war weighs undiminished upon the people's minds. That is because deeper than material wounds, moral wounds are smarting, inflicted by the so- called peace treaties. Hjalmar Schacht
Naming is a difficult and timeconsuming process; it concerns essences, and it means power. But on the wild nights who can call you home? Only the one who knows your name. Jeanette Winterson
I used to think she was quite intelligent , in my stupidity. The reason I did was because she knew quite a lot about the theater and plays and literature and all that stuff. If somebody knows quite a lot about all those things, it takes you quite a while to find out whether they're really stupid or not. J. D. Salinger