62 Bedfellows Quotes

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Famous Bedfellows Quotes

Wedlock is the deep, deep peace of the double bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise lounge. — Mrs. Patrick Campbell

Conspirators in pajamas who exchange deep kisses for passwords. — Pablo Neruda

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends. — Homer

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open. — George Bernard Shaw

Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy. — Francois de la Rochefoucauld

What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

Lie down with dogs and you’ll rise with fleas. — Irish Proverbs

When you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas. — Jean Harlow

Thus people--so it seems to me-- Become good friends from sheer ennui. — Alexander Pushkin

Now I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers and laid entwined together on a bed of clover and left there to sleep, left there to dream of their happiness. — Conor Oberst

What are Fred and I? Next door neighbors? - J. K. Rowling

What are Fred and I? Next door neighbors? — J. K. Rowling

A common danger unites even the bitterest enemies. — Aristotle

One hand washes the other. — Seneca

Everyone sleeps, except lovers, who stay awake, telling stories to God — Rumi

The battle of the sexes will never be won as long as we keep sleeping with the enemy. — Emo Philips

Short Bedfellows Quotes

  • Ah, children, be afraid of going prayerless to bed, lest the Devil be your bedfellow. — Cotton Mather
  • Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows. — William Shakespeare
  • Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows. — Michel de Montaigne
  • Faith and Fear make poor bedfellows. Where one is found, the other cannot exist. — Napoleon Hill
  • Skepticism is history's bedfellow. — Edgar Saltus
  • Ease and honor are seldom bedfellows. — Proverbs
  • Politics makes estranged bedfellows. — Goodman Ace
  • Politics make strange bedfellows. — Charles Dudley Warner
  • Adversity makes strange bedfellows. — William Shakespeare
  • Resurrection, like politics, makes strange bedfellows. — Philip Jose Farmer

Strange Bedfellows Quotes

The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship. — Marcel Achard

What an alliance, huh? A Dark-Hunter and a Spathi united to guard an Apollite. Who would have ever imagined? (Wulf) Love makes strange bedfellows. (Acheron) I thought that was politics. (Wulf) It’s both. (Acheron) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Perhaps Bach and Beethoven are strange bedfellows for Mickey Mouse, but it's all been a lot of fun. — Walt Disney

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does. — Groucho Marx

Economic libertarians and Christian evangelicals, united by their common enemy, are strange bedfellows in today's Republican party, just as the two Georges - the archconservative Wallace and the uberliberal McGovern - found themselves in the same Democratic Party in 1972. — Steven Pinker

Poverty has strange bedfellows. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Art and business may be strange bedfellows, but an artist must make room in her bed for both. — Eric Maisel

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More Bedfellows Quotes

It is true that there are not many smiling faces in modern art galleries. Happy art is much harder to make. Art and humour are uneasy bedfellows. Artists need strong feelings to motivate them to make things. I am often fuelled by anger. — Grayson Perry

I like to piece together different guitarists, unlikely bedfellows. You have Jonny Greenwood playing next to Nile Rodgers on the same track, so it becomes like an orchestra of sounds. — Bryan Ferry

EXISTENCE, n. A transient, horrible, fantastic dream,/ Wherein is nothing yet all things do seem:/ From which we're wakened by a friendly nudge/ Of our bedfellow Death, and cry: "O fudge!" — Ambrose Bierce

Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows — Nick Bantock

It is worth the while to live respectably unto ourselves. We can possibly get along with a neighbor, even with a bedfellow, whom we respect but very little; but as soon as it comes to this, that we do not respect ourselves, then we do not get along at all, no matter how much money we are paid for halting. — Henry David Thoreau

Sexual attraction makes the strangest bedfellows of all. — Mason Cooley

Perhaps dirt is the necessary condition of beauty.... Perhaps hygiene and art can never be bedfellows. No Verdi, after all, without spitting into trumpets. No Duse without a crowd of malodorous bourgeois giving one another their coryzas. And think of the inexpugnable retreats for microbes prepared by Michelangelo in the curls of Moses' beard! — Aldous Huxley

War makes strangers bedfellows. — Kathleen Winsor

Poetry and slave trading cannot be bedfellows. That's where I stand. — Chinua Achebe

Celebrity and charity have been bedfellows for many years. The key is to try and choose practical, sound and effective ones. There is no shortage of solicitation for endorsement, so you have to really know what you're getting behind and be passionate about it. In this case, aside from just being a spokesperson, they're benefiting a form of expression that is dear to me, painting. — Billy Zane

There's a huge cloud of shame around art and business being seen as bedfellows. — Amanda Palmer

This cold weather has set all the young Folks to providing Bedfellows. I have signed two or three Licences every Day [as a Fairfax Justice of the Peace] since I have been at Home. I wish I knew where to get a good one myself; for I find cold Sheets extreamly disagreeable. — George Mason

Luck is only my lover, not my wife," replied Bahktiaan easily. He drew his saber. "If ever I wed, it will be skill and intelligence." "Tedious bedfellows," said Sergi. — Kate Elliott

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