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Quotes About Mrs

The sergeant knocked up Mrs Green, who lived at New Cottage, the house immediately to the east of the gateway, but she too had heard no disturbance.
~ Philip Sugden
Mr Witwould: "Pray, madam, do you pin up your hair with all your letters? I find I must keep copies." Mrs Millamant: "Only with those in verse.... I never pin up my hair with prose."
~ William Congreve
Although Mrs Albright stopped calling for further air strikes she still lamely insisted that the UN Sec General should consider cost of backing down in the face of Bosnian Serbs.
~ Jan Willem Honig
In the prosperous household of Sylvie's childhood, Cook was called 'Cook' but Mrs Glover preferred 'Mrs Glover'. It made her irreplaceable. Sylvie still stubbornly referred to her as Cook.
~ Kate Atkinson
Just look at that beastly duck cooking at my stove! Cried Mrs Gregg as she flew past the kitchen window. How dare she!
~ Roald Dahl
But that's enough of that. We can't go on forever watching these two disgusting people doing disgusting things to each other. We must get ahead with the story. Here is a picture of Mr and Mrs Twit's house and garden. Some house! It looks like a prison. And not a window anywhere.
~ Roald Dahl
Home again I swiftly glide Back to my beautiful bride She'll not feel so rotten As soon as she's gotten Some cider inside her inside 'Oh poor Mrs Badger, he cried, So hungry she very near died. But she'll not feel so hollow If only she'll swallow Some cider inside her inside.' ---Fantastic Mr. Fox, Ronald Dhal
~ Roald Dahl
Pouting is one of those dying arts; Mrs Spon can do it, so can the boy who creates my shirts, but it's almost as rare nowadays as tittering and sniggering.
~ Kyril Bonfiglioli
asked Mother. She said we might, if Mrs Stick will make us
~ Enid Blyton
Nice," said Mrs Spender emphatically, "is hardly the word, if you see what I mean. I mean a man who does such wonderful good by his mere influence, though mind you I don't mean like an Indian by simply sitting and thinking of nothing.
~ Angela Thirkell
Better not think about Mrs Barum either; it was really such a strain going on being fair.
~ Ann Bridge
On some nights I take a little laudanum and a few months ago Mrs Abernetty recommended pillows stuffed with camel hair. She was absolutely right.
~ Anthony Horowitz
It was this impulsive utterance which made Mrs Chartley say, later: 'My dear John, I marvel at your countenancing this most improper dance! When they went down the room together, with his left hand holding her right one above their heads, his right hand was clasping her waist!
~ Georgette Heyer
Tiffany?' exclaimed Mrs Underhill incredulously. 'Why, she's got no more notion of propriety than the kitchen cat!
~ Georgette Heyer
Well,' said Mrs Smiling, 'it sounds an appalling place, but in a different way from all the others. I mean, it does sound interesting and appalling, while the others just sound appalling.
~ Stella Gibbons
It's not the bloody carrots that upset me. It's having them sneaked into my food by a madwoman who addresses the cutlery as Mr and Mrs Fork.
~ Jojo Moyes
Was your husband upset?' 'How can you tell with an Englishman?' asked Mrs Coopertown.
~ Ben Aaronovitch
Suddenly a sound like a water-pipe with air in it came from Mrs Gunn and Carolus realized that she was giggling.
~ Leo Bruce
Everybody of any consequence or notoriety in Bath was well know by name to Mrs Smith.
~ Jane Austen
Liberal studies means..." said Mrs Chatterway, who prided herself on being an advocate of progressive education, in which role she had made a substantial contribution to the illiteracy rate in several previously good primary schools.
~ Tom Sharpe
A letter today from a Mrs Gladys Freeman, 45 Sebastopol Terrace, Blackpool. 'Sir, reference the room you had here during the party conference season. Well, we know what it is. We know who done it. But for heaven's sake tell us where it is!
~ Tony Benn
Extraordinary things have happened to me in this city,' said Mrs Eckdorf in the bar of her hotel at half-past one on the morning of August 11th. 'You would scarce believe,' she said.
~ William Trevor