Camilla Collett quotes

“The one who is happy can never get too early out of bed.”
-- Camilla Collett

#Bed Quotes

“Once I went to bed in Orlando and I woke up in Atlanta. I have no idea how that happened.”

“You can look at the words on this paper and, because they are the ones I am used to choosing, they will show you the shape of me. I am here to be read in the way you might read the impression of my weight in a bed after a still night, a restless night, a night not alone.”

Source : A.L. Kennedy (2010). “Original Bliss”, p.74, Random House

“We could have made it to the Arizona border in a few more hours if we hadn't been distracting each other with stupid little arguments. Don't get me wrong; I liked J.Lo fine. I've made that bed. But I'm not sure there's a person in the world I could be with twenty-four hours a day for three weeks without getting a little snippy. If I ever meet such a person, I'm marrying them.”

Source : Adam Rex (2013). “The True Meaning of Smekday”, p.302, A&C Black

“For in pure maidens, knowing not the marriage-bed, the glance of the eyes sinks from shame.”

“I had this whole ritual with my mother making the bed with me inside it so I would be invisible.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“10.30 Newsnight: What Are The Chances Of World War Three Breaking Out After You Have Gone To Bed?”

“The joke that you laid in the bed that was me.”

“I go to bed at 2 a.m. and get up at 7 a.m. - I've never been a sleeper. But I definitely get sick every month-and-a-half.”

“She was made for untidy rooms and rumpled beds.”

“It was Mrs. Campbell, for instance, who, on a celebrated occasion, threw her companion into a flurry by describing her recent marriage as "the deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-longue."”

Source : Alexander Woollcott (1951). “The Indispensable Woollcott”