Famous quotes containing the words john, montagu, douglas and/or scott:
“People named John and Mary never divorce. For better or for worse, in madness and in saneness, they seem bound together for eternity by their rudimentary nomenclature. They may loathe and despise one another, quarrel, weep, and commit mayhem, but they are not free to divorce. Tom, Dick, and Harry can go to Reno on a whim, but nothing short of death can separate John and Mary.”
—John Cheever (1912–1982)
“A man that is ashamed of passions that are natural and reasonable is generally proud of those that are shameful and silly.”
—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)
“Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)