bedroom quotes

It doesn't matter what you do in the bedroom as long as you don't do it in the street and frighten the horses.

-Campbell, Mrs Patrick ne¤  e Beatrice Rose StellaTanner
Quoted in Daphne Fielding The Duchess of  Jermyn Street (1964), ch.2. Sometimes attributed to Edward VII.

In private conversation he tries on speeches like a man trying on ties in his bedroom, to see how he would look in them.

-Curtis, Lionel
  Of  Winston Churchill. Letter to Nancy Astor.

Iseriouslyobjecttoseeingonthescreenwhat belongs in the bedroom.

-Goldwyn, Sam(uel) originally  Schmuel Gelbfisz
Attributed maxim. Quoted in Leslie Halliwell Halliwell's Filmgoer's and Video Viewer's Companion (9th edn,1989).

Lincoln's bedroom! And you see that great bed, it looks like a cathedral.

-Onassis,Jacqueline Lee Kennedy ne¤  e Bouvier
  On her first night in the White House, in Newsweek,1  Jan.

Thisgoing into Europe will not turn out to be the thrilling mutual exchange supposed. It is more like nine middle- aged couples with failing marriages meeting in a darkened bedroom in a Brusselshotel fora group grope.

-Thompson, E P
  OnBritain's entry into the EEC, in the SundayTimes, 27 Apr.

The primary duty of a serious biographer is to illuminate hissubject'slife work, nottoplay thespy inhisbedroom.

-Toynbee, (Theodore) Philip
  Book review in the Observer,18 Mar.

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