A Quote by Marguerite Duras

You have to be very fond of men. Very, very fond. You have to be very fond of them to love them. Otherwise they're simply unbearable.

Marguerite Duras

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Marguerite Duras
French - Novelist
April 4, 1914 - March 3, 1996

Even in the big movies, if the scenes are very big, I'm not fond of them as much as I'm fond of small actor scenes.

Ayelet Zurer

We like, we cherish, we are very, very fond of—but we never love again.

Jerome K. Jerome

I've gotten a few love letters which I'm very fond of, thank you very much.

Alex Hogh Andersen

There was the torture of sermons, and that not a slight one, for I was very fond of them.

Teresa of Avila

I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I've flunked more often than not. I'm very fond of women; I admire them. But, like all men, I don't understand them.

Frank Sinatra

He is very fond of making things which he does not want, and then giving them to people who have no use for them.

Anthony Hope

I have very fond memories of the '80s; they were very formative years for me. I certainly remember the Cold War. It was a closer doorstep for the Brits than the Americans, so it was a very real and palpable threat at the time.

Matthew Rhys

I have very fond memories of the 80s; they were very formative years for me. I certainly remember the Cold War. It was a closer doorstep for the Brits than the Americans, so it was a very real and palpable threat at the time.

Matthew Rhys

He is very fond of me, almost too fond. I could do with less caressing and more rationality. I should like to be less of a pet and more of a friend, if I might choose; but I won't complain of that: I am only afraid his affection loses in depth where it gains in ardour. I sometimes liken it to a fire of dry twigs and branches compared with one of solid coal, very bright and hot; but if it should burn itself out and leave nothing but ashes behind.

Anne Bronte

The coach of Madrid must be very fond of the players and should not put them under a lot of pressure.

Roberto Carlos

... the English are very fond of being entertained, and ... they regard the French and the American people as destined by Heaven to amuse them.

M. E. W. Sherwood

Tis very strange men should be so fond of being wickeder than they are.

Daniel Defoe

I'm very fond of doing movies where men fight over me. I don't get to do enough.

Anjelica Huston

We're all very fond of a black box in our living room that works on diminishment of images, that spoons somebody up in a very limited way. It can be a reduction at its worst.

Mary Steenburgen

I have always been very fond of them (drama critics) . . . I think it is so frightfully clever of them to go night after night to the theatre and know so little about it.