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Edith Templeton
5 quotes
“Women are like teeth. Some tremble and never fall and some fall and never tremble.”
Edith Templeton (1916–2006) first seen 1954 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Surprise of Cremona (1954), sec. 5, "Urbino". Reported in The Penguin Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Quotations (Viking, 1993) p. 367
“My mind sometimes wanders. Do unto others and so on. Very nice again, but what if others have a different taste from yours? I don't remember who said it.”
Edith Templeton (1916–2006) first seen 1985 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Summer in the Country (London: The Hogarth Press, 1985) p. 143
“It was though I had been in possession of one of those small shells with Japanese flowers which are sold at street corners. When plunged into a bowl of water, the tightly sealed shell opens and the flat, dry, coiled-up, insignificant shreds of paper contained within float out and unfold their variegated and unsuspected splendour; with Gordon I had found my bowl of water.”
Edith Templeton (1916–2006) said by 2006 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Beyond my upset I was flooded by a deep happiness, similar to the one he made me feel when forcing me to surrender to his virility. No one else before him had given me this gratification, but I realised now that the longing to be violated, body and soul, must have always been inside me.”
Edith Templeton (1916–2006) said by 2006 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You are like a child who whistles in the dark. As though the dark cared, my poor child, as though the dark cared.”
Edith Templeton (1916–2006) said by 2006 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source