Элен Роуленд цитаты

„Настоящая любовь не та, что выдерживает долгие годы разлуки, а та, что выдерживает долгие годы близости.“

„На свою вторую свадьбу невеста не надевает фату: она хочет видеть то, что получает.“

„Когда мужчина делает женщину своей женой — это самый большой комплимент, какой он может ей сделать, и который обычно становится последним.“

“When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.”

Элен Роуленд: Цитаты на английском языке

“A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.”

Reflections of a Bachelor Girl, p. 5 (1903)
Other

“A Bachelor of Arts is one who makes love to a lot of women, and yet has the art to remain a bachelor.”

Second Marriages
A Guide to Men (1922)

“Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man.”

Bachelors
A Guide to Men (1922)

“What a man calls his "conscience" is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love.”

http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/975693.Helen_Rowland
Other

“Why does a man take it for granted that a girl who flirts with him wants him to kiss her—when, nine times out of ten, she only wants him to want to kiss her?”

Brides
A Guide to Men (1922)

“Oh yes, there is a vast difference between the savage and the civilized man, but it is never apparent to their wives until after breakfast.”

First Interlude
A Guide to Men (1922)

“It takes one woman twenty years to make a man of her son—and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.”

Cymbals and Kettle-drums
A Guide to Men (1922)

“To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.”

Overture: Prelude http://www.gutenberg.org/files/30630/30630-h/30630-h.htm#Page_20 <br class="br">A Guide to Men (1922)

“France may claim the happiest marriages in the world, but the happiest divorces in the world are "made in America."”

Fourth Interlude http://www.gutenberg.org/files/30630/30630-h/30630-h.htm#Page_93 <br class="br">A Guide to Men (1922)

“Wedding: the point at which a man stops toasting a woman and begins roasting her.”

Variations
A Guide to Men (1922)

“When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn't a sign that they "don't understand" one another, but a sign that they have, at last, begun to.”

Syncopations
A Guide to Men (1922)

“Some women can be fooled all of the time, and all women can be fooled some of the time, but the same woman can't be fooled by the same man in the same way more than half of the time.”

Divorces
A Guide to Men (1922)