Famous Quotes
"We are used to female writers who use their private lives as unmitigated material being somewhat hormonal this somehow 'excuses' what might be seen as a highly unfeminine ability to turn their personal upsets into money."
More quotes about Money
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"When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life now that I am old I know that it is."
Oscar Wilde on Money -
"A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money."
John Ruskin on Money -
"Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants."
Benjamin Franklin on Money -
"The lack of money is the root of all evil."
Mark Twain on Money -
"Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it."
Mark Twain on Money
More quotes by Julie Burchill
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"I am firmly of the opinion that women who make a lot of effort to hang onto their looks in middle age (unless they are beauties, entertainers or prostitutes) are rather sad, as one should surely have something more substantial to recommend one by this time, such as kindness or cleverness."
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"As a precocious teen I dreamed of being Graham Greene. Well, as it turned out, I never wrote a great novel, sadly, and I never converted to Catholicism, happily, but I did do one thing he did. That is, in middle age I moved to a seaside town and got into a right barney with the local powers-that-be."
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"As a child, I wanted only two things - to be left alone to read my library books, and to get away from my provincial hometown and go to London to be a writer. And I always knew that when I got there, I wanted to make loads of money."
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"Surely being a Professional Beauty - let alone an ageing one - is one of the most insecure and doomed careers imaginable."
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"My second husband believed I had such a fickle attitude to friendship that each Friday he would update the list of my 'Top Ten' friends in the manner of a Top Of The Pops chart countdown."