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Margaret Kennedy Quotes

It is better to break one's heart than to do nothing with it.

It is better to break one's heart than to do nothing with it.

Margaret Kennedy
Love, Heart, Romantic Love
Margaret Kennedy (1939). “The Midas Touch”, New York : Random House

It's no use to worry about what people think. I never do. I used to. But when I saw that they'd really rather think wrong than right I gave it up.

Margaret Kennedy
Thinking, People, Worry
Margaret Kennedy (2014). “Ladies of Lyndon”, p.100, Random House

Patience is the capacity to endure all that is necessary in attaining a desired end. ... Patience never forsakes the ultimate goal because the road is hard. There can be no patience without an object.

Margaret Kennedy
Patience, Goal, Ends

where the bedroom is wrong the whole house is wrong.

Margaret Kennedy
Sex, House, Bedroom

... acquired tastes are the mark of the man of leisure.

Margaret Kennedy
Men, Taste, Leisure
Margaret Kennedy (2014). “Ladies of Lyndon”, p.75, Random House

They are emotional gluttons, both of them. They gobbled up every sensation they could extract from marriage, and now they are seeing if separation won't provide them with a few more.

Margaret Kennedy
Emotional, Separation, Seeing
Margaret Kennedy (2011). “Lucy Carmichael”, p.8, Faber & Faber

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