Charlotte Montagu Douglas Scott

Famous quotes containing the words charlotte, montagu, douglas and/or scott:

    Oh, Jerry, don’t let’s ask for the moon—we have the stars.
    Casey Robinson, screenwriter. Irving Rapper. Charlotte Vale (Bette Davis)

    I have all my life been on my guard against the information conveyed by the sense of hearing—it being one of my earliest observations, the universal inclination of humankind is to be led by the ears, and I am sometimes apt to imagine that they are given to men as they are to pitchers, purposely that they may be carried about by them.
    Mary Wortley, Lady Montagu (1689–1762)

    If you want to know about a man you can find out an awful lot by looking at who he married.
    —Kirk Douglas (b. 1916)

    It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won’t save us any more than love did.
    —F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)