Monday, 8 January 2024

9 January: Lady Randolph Churchill Quotes

Born on this date in 1854 was Jenny, Lady Randolph Churchill, wife of Lord Randolph and mother of Winston. 10 quotes from her:

  1. Treat your friends as you do your best pictures, and place them in their best light.

  2. One is forever throwing away substance for shadows.

  3. Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

  4. I shall never get used to not being the most beautiful woman in the room.

  5. We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.

  6. What is love without passion? - A garden without flowers, a hat without feathers, tobogganing without snow.

  7. Life means work, and hard work, if you mean to succeed.

  8. It is so tempting to try the most difficult thing possible.

  9. He has a future and I have a past, so we should be all right.

  10. There is no such thing as a moral dress. It's people who are moral or immoral.

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