Terms Of Endearment Quotes
"The success of a marriage invariably depends on the woman."
"The women of our family have always prided themselves on their dress."
"I'd rather you didn't mention nakedness to me, I'm not concerned with it right now."
"I personally have seen to that. There are certainly better ways to use it than the discussion of naked bodies."
"All except you, at least. I am not a seamstress. I do not propose to sew."
"It belongs on a pickaninny, not on a daughter of mine."
"I've never allowed myself to be resigned to anything that wasn't delightful."
"You've brought this upon me now. There is nothing more to say."
"I don't know what makes you think so. You know how lowlife they are."
"You have made your bed. You no longer have an open destiny."
"I never try to whitewash the fact that you married badly."
"I hope your meal hasn't been spoiled by all this dissension."
"You're very unrewarding today. I don't think you like me when I sound gay."
"Life is so much pleasanter when people say kind things to one another."
"Silences were the equivalent, in her repertoire, of the Chinese water torture—they fell, second by second, upon the most sensitive nerves of whoever had been so foolish as to occasion them."
"Life, she knew, was something one had to make the most of, but there were certainly times when it was difficult to know how to go about it."
"I’ve always thought that people who are too quick with their apologies can’t have a very healthy attitude."
"Nothing wears a piece of furniture out quicker than leaving it in the same place."
"The more things one can take lightly, the better chance one has."
"The difference between the saved and the fallen, I have always maintained, boils down to adequate temptation."
"If you wear out my bell I won’t appreciate it, I can tell you that."
"I’m far too difficult for Alberto. I knew both his wives and they were empty as birds’ nests."
"There is very little telling where I’m apt to be at six in the morning."
"The best marriages are not performed in cheap restaurants."
"I’m not interested in matrimony, and in any case my suitors are a mixed bag."
"Vernon, you have a great many irritating physical mannerisms."
"Life continued to be interesting, which was something."
"You’d be surprised what a raise and a good new job will do for a man like Royce."
"I don’t know how to talk like you do—that’s the plain truth."
"I ain’t got your kind of style. I can’t talk like you do. I look funny and we just barely met."
"If I run off now you’ll just start thinkin’ how dumb and funny-lookin’ I am."
"I never knowed a lady before, not to talk to."
"I ain’t ignorant exactly, but I just ain’t had no practice."
"If he was dirty he might get in the elevator and go down and walk the three blocks to the Rice Hotel for a bath and a change of clothes, but he always came right back to the roof and settled himself in the back seat of the Lincoln and began to put in his nightly calls."
"The nice thing about being so high up was that he could see so far, literally, that in his mind’s eye he could often see the places he was calling: Amarillo or Midland, the Gulf shore, Caracas or Bogota."
"Old Schweppes’s whole family—a wife and four children—had been wiped out in a trailer-house fire thirty years before, and he had not recovered from it, nor even tried."
"Well, you come to the right man this time," Schweppes said. "I was woman crazy half my life—course it was the first half."
"A woman that don’t like presents is bound to have a mean streak in her."
"Normal people don’t bed down for the night in Lincoln Continentals on the top of parking garages."
"I guess a woman’s about the only chance you got to stay human, if you come right down to it."
"He looked his most most sheepish, which was also his most appealing."
"It was really an antique one-man trailer dating from the 1930s, and they had taken it in payment for two hundred dollars’ worth of cheeseburgers owed them by a one-time friend named Reno, who had lived for a while in the smelly little trailer camp a few yards up the street."
"I haven’t got past Trevor yet, so just leave Vernon out of it."
"I'm not going to achieve the life I was meant to lead."
"I happen to be getting better than I deserve."
"Life is sure to change every five minutes for you."
"You're the most intolerable, arrogant bitch I've ever encountered."
"The whole point of civilization is to provide one with someone to drink tea with at the end of an evening."
"I'm not scary! There's nothing frightening about me."
"I'm entirely to blame, as usual. I'm a very ill-tempered, disagreeable woman."