Barbara Hutton quotes

“Money alone can't bring you happiness, but money alone has not brought me unhappiness. I won't say my previous husbands thought only of my money, but it had a certain fascination for them.”
-- Barbara Hutton

#Money Quotes #Husband Quotes #Fascination Quotes

“I've never seen a Brink's truck follow a hearse to the cemetery.”
-- Barbara Hutton

#Truck Quotes #Cemetery Quotes

“[On her mother, who died when Hutton was 4:] I hardly remember her, but I have missed her all my life.”
-- Barbara Hutton

#Mother Quotes #Remember Quotes #Died Quotes

“I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. . . . corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.”

“Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed.”

“I believe only in money, not in love or tenderness. Love and tenderness meant only pain and suffering and defeat. I would not let it ruin me as it ruined others! I would speak only with money, hard money.”

“A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.”

“The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal. They're about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.”

Source : "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them". Book by Al Franken, September 2003.

“I dream of a true husband—a good man, not a brute, nor a champion of men on the battlefield; I dream but of a gentle man, one who neither speaks too loud nor ignores evil. I pray for such a like-minded mate, who will be ever for me like harmony to music, virtue to the soul, prosperity to the state, and forethought to the universe.”

“Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.”

Source : The History of the Kentish Petition addenda, l. 11 (1712 - 1713) See Abigail Adams 1

“Some men are born husbands; they have a passion for domesticity, for a fireside, for a home. Yet, curiously, these men very rarely stay at home. Apparently what they want is to have a place to get away from.”

“In his fifty-six years he was at times many things, including a fugitive, prisoner, rising politician, army leader, legal advocate, rebel, dictator – perhaps even a god – as well as a husband, father, lover and adulterer. Few fictional heroes have ever done as much as Caius Julius Caesar.”

Source : Adrian Goldsworthy (2013). “Caesar: The Life Of A Colossus”, p.14, Hachette UK

“I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to become emotionally involved with a personality that doesn't exist.”