Elisabeth Charlotte d'Orleans quotes
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“Coffee is not as necessary to ministers of the reformed faith as to Catholic priests. The latter are not allowed to marry, and coffee is said to induce chastity.”
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“We are generally punished by where we have sinned.”
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“One who no longer wishes to laugh had best marry in France; they will soon find that it is no laughing matter.”
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“I fancy that England is not the only place where married folks disagree, and where there are bad husbands. If one does not care to meet with such cases, one must quit this world. Those wishing to enter the marriage state had better not come to me for advice, for I disapprove of it altogether.”
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“It may be said of happy marriages as of the phoenix - there is but one a century.”
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“since piety has become the fashion at Court, dramatic authors imagine that their pieces would be more welcome if they added in a little devotion. At first their plan succeeded, but now no one can bear their comedies.”
-- Elisabeth Charlotte d'Orleans
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“If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.”
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“Yeah, well I'm not aspiring to be the Prime Minister.”
Source : Interview with Tony Jones, www.abc.net.au. September 20, 2007.
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“No, I am not pregnant. I am fat. And, as the Prime Minister, its my right to be fat if I want to.”
Source : "Benazir, the steely and vulnerable" by Lyse Doucet, news.bbc.co.uk. December 29, 2007.
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“My grandmother was a minister as well, which was not that common in the 1930s.”
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“I was a member of the Politburo for seven years, a foreign minister.”