Violet Bonham Carter quotes

Violet Bonham Carter quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Outer space is no place for a person of breeding.”
-- Violet Bonham Carter

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“Bonar Law never led his Party. He was always looking over his shoulder to see if he was being followed.”
-- Violet Bonham Carter

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“The things that make me different are the things that make me.”
“Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.”

Source : More Poems (1936) no. 36
“The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.”
“Gratitude is something of which none of us can give too much. For on the smiles, the thanks we give, our little gestures of appreciation, our neighbors build their philosophy of life.”
“I've been told I sold 110m albums and singles. If that's the case, I should've come here in a space rocket.”
“In the New Yorker library, I have long been shelved between Nadine Gordimer and Brendan Gill; an eerie little space nestled between high seriousness of purpose and legendary lightness of touch.”
“Simplicity is a great element of good breeding.”

Source : Fanny Kemble (1890). “Further Records, 1848-1883: A Series of Letters, Forming a Sequel to Record of a Girlhood, and Records of Later Life”
“Good-breeding shows itself most where to an ordinary eye it appears the least.”
“Two years work wasted, I have been breeding those flies for all that time and I've got nothing out of it.”
“Outer space is no place for a person of breeding.”

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