Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dolly Parton

I've never had a divorce, but I've seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that can't write about it. I take on their sorrow, so I'm able to kind of express it, or their joy.

Dinah Sheridan

I got a divorce eleven years later on the grounds of cruelty, which is still not easy in England.

Delia Ephron

There is something fantastic about getting divorced. Everyone should do it to experience the extraordinary sense of freedom after being in marriage jail.

Debbie Reynolds

I think one of my favourite films is 'Dark Victory' with Bette Davis. Why? She was so wonderful in that film. And maybe I just want a good cry once in a while without having to go through a divorce.

Anthea Turner

I have worked and earned all my life and have found that divorce is an expensive process. Whichever way you look at it, you are going to halve your wealth. If you can avoid it, do. It is an awful process.

Anthony Burgess

The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, which looks to the European like serial polygamy, is the moral solution to the problem of the itch.

Anatole Broyard

The first divorce in the world may have been a tragedy, but the hundred-millionth is not necessarily one.

Annette Funicello

The mere thought of divorce terrified me. To me, divorce symbolized failure.

Anna Held

Please do not ask me to talk about my divorce. Mr. Ziegfeld and I are such very good friends. It is only a little matter quite between ourselves.

Ambrose Bierce

Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.

Amy Poehler

The process of divorce is about loading that blanket, throwing it up, watching it all spin, and worrying what stuff will break when it lands.

Ann Landers

An open marriage is nature's way of telling you that you need a divorce.

Ann Landers

More divorces start in the bedroom than in any other room in the house.

Jane Seymour

After my divorce, painting took me out of panic mode and into a serene, calm place. I could absolutely lose myself.

Boy George

Gay unions, what is that about? I haven't been invited to any ceremonies, and I wouldn't go anyway. The idea that gay people have to mimic what obviously doesn't work for straight people any more... I think is a bit tragic. I am looking forward to gay divorces.

Boy George

Very few people can truly divorce themselves from what they feel emotionally and sexually.

Elie Wiesel

My faith is a wounded faith, but my life is not without faith. I didn't divorce God, but I'm quarrelling and arguing and questioning, it's a wounded faith.

Edward Gibbon

[The] liberty of divorce does not contribute to happiness and virtue. The facility of separation would destroy all mutual confidence, and inflame every trifling dispute . . .

Edith Wharton

in the dissolution of sentimental partnerships it is seldom that both associates are able to withdraw their funds at the same time ...

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Even with my divorce and with everything, I don't need money.

Ben Affleck

Sure, I suffered a lot. But it's not like the end of the world and it's not who I am. I lead quite a pleasant life and I'm able to divorce a perceived reality from my actual experience of life.

Arthur Golden

When a man takes a mistress, he doesn't turn around and divorce his wife.

Demi Moore

Marriage is one of the most difficult things in the world and unfortunately sometimes they fail.

Dana Carvey

You know, Elizabeth Taylor must be in Heaven going, 'Alright, fire two honey!'

Dan Barker

I took about a year to fully adjust. Like there's a death at the family or a divorce, you don't just snap your fingers and it's over.

Elizabeth Taylor

I left home as soon as I could, when I was 18. I thought I was in love and got married - the press called it Prince Charming and Cinderella. He was a Hilton so I was the poor little Cinderella. And when I got a divorce nine months later I never told the court why, but he was cruel.

Arlie Russell Hochschild

The influx of women into paid work and her increased power raise a woman's aspirations and hopes for equal treatment at home. Her lower wage and status at work and the threat of divorce reduce what she presses for and actually expects.

Jane Kaczmarek

Divorce is brutal and horrible and... you have to actively work to get your life back on track.

Jane Fonda

I was so devastated by my second divorce that I had a nervous breakdown.

Diablo Cody

I'm one of the people that were divorced by 30, which is apparently a growing group... Obviously it's something that affects you forever. It's going to be interesting to see in ten, twenty years what kind of lasting effect young divorce has on the people that are doing it because it's becoming more and more common.

David Ginola

If I told my wife I was going to become a manager she'd say 'sign this then. Don't worry it's only a divorce. Au revoir'.

David Gray

Love after divorce is all about showing and sharing with my son what is good and right in life!

Dave Barry

You should be prepared for anything during divorce proceedings - even the truth.