Amelia Peabody Quotes

• No woman really wants a man to carry her off; she only wants him to want to do it.

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  Funny   Women   Want  

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• Most men are reasonably useful in a crisis. The difficulty lies in convincing them that the situation has reached a critical point

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  Lying   Men   Crisis  

  613

• I would never have supposed that inexperienced girl was capable of such cold-blooded, calculating manipulation!

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  Girl   Manipulation   Cold  

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• I disapprove of matrimony as a matter of principle.... Why should any independent, intelligent female choose to subject herself to the whims and tyrannies of a husband? I assure you, I have yet to meet a man as sensible as myself! (Amelia Peabody)

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  Husband   Independent   Intelligent  

  2400

• Your trousers are on fire. I would have told you, but you so dislike advice.

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  Fire   Advice   Trousers  

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• I do not scruple to employ mendacity and a fictitious appearance of female incompetence when the occasion demands it.

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  Female   Demand   Appearance  

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• There was no warning, not even a knock. The door flew open, and he forgot his present aches and pains in anticipation of what lay in store. The figure that stood in the door was not that of an enemy. It was worse. It was his mother.

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  Mother   Pain   Doors  

  1385

• Is is difficult to be angry with a gentleman who pays you compliments, even impertinent compliments. Especially impertinent compliments.

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  Men   Gentleman   Pay  

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