Quotes about bed page 4
“She was made for untidy rooms and rumpled beds.”
Alexander McCall Smith book The Sunday Philosophy Club
Source: The Sunday Philosophy Club
Christina Dodd (1957) American writer
Source: Rules of Attraction
“She has the heart of a child, you know. Yeah, it's in a box beside her bed.
- Kaia Skyhawk”
Gena Showalter (1975) American writer
Source: The Darkest Surrender
Sherman Alexie book The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
Source: The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Magic Burns
Richard Brautigan (1935–1984) American novelist, poet, and short story writer
Source: The Pill vs. the Springhill Mine Disaster
“And when thou art weary I'll find thee a bed,
Of mosses and flowers to pillow thy head.”
John Keats (1795–1821) English Romantic poet
Source: The Complete Poems
“Sydney spent a lot of time on my bed these days.
Unfortunately, it wasn't with me.”
Richelle Mead book The Fiery Heart
Source: The Fiery Heart
L.J. Smith (1965) American author
Source: Dark Reunion
“Madelyne, we're married now. 'Tis a usual occurrence to bed one's wife on the wedding night.”
Julie Garwood (1946) American writer
Source: Honor's Splendour
“Words are like coin—it pays to hoard."
"Until you die on a bed of gold," Paran said.”
Steven Erikson book Gardens of the Moon
Source: Gardens of the Moon
“If I'm good enough to bed, surely I'm good enough to wed.”
Elizabeth Hoyt (1970) American writer
Source: Notorious Pleasures
“I just can't. I'm married. I made my bed and now I have to lie in it.”
Sara Gruen book Water for Elephants
Source: Water for Elephants
Shunryu Suzuki (1904–1971) Japanese Buddhist missionary
Source: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
“Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead.”
James Thurber (1894–1961) American cartoonist, author, journalist, playwright
"The Shrike and the Chipmunks", The New Yorker (18 February 1939); Fables for Our Time & Famous Poems Illustrated (1940). Because it is derived from Benjamin Franklin's famous saying this is often misquoted as: Early to rise and early to bed makes a man healthy, wealthy, and dead.
From Fables for Our Time and Further Fables for Our Time
Mark Polish (1970) American film actor, screenwriter and producer
Erma Bombeck (1927–1996) When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent le…
“To me, there's nothing on earth other than women. It's why I get out of bed every morning.”
James Ellroy (1948) Novelist, short story writer, essayist, memoirist
“I mean that it's all right to go to bed with an asshole but don't ever have a baby with one.”
David Gilmour (1946) guitarist, singer, best known as a member of Pink Floyd
Source: The Film Club: A True Story of a Father and Son
“You Americans, always peering under people's beds to look for communism.”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie book Half of a Yellow Sun
Source: Half of a Yellow Sun
“Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.”
Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer
Susan Mallery (1950) American author
Source: Under Her Skin
Franz Kafka book The Metamorphosis
Als Gregor Samsa eines Morgens aus unruhigen Träumen erwachte, fand er sich in seinem Bett zu einem ungeheuren Ungeziefer verwandelt.
First lines
Variant translation (by David Wyllie): One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin.
Source: The Metamorphosis (1915)
“And they always slept better with blades beneath their beds.”
Cinda Williams Chima (1952) Novelist
Source: The Warrior Heir
John Marsden (1950) author
Source: Darkness, Be My Friend
“Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read.”
Raymond Carver (1938–1988) American short story author and poet
“It wasn’t easy looking dignified wearing a bed sheet and a purple cape.”
Rick Riordan book The Son of Neptune
Source: The Son of Neptune
“It's not the sort of night for bed, anyhow.”
Kenneth Grahame book The Wind in the Willows
Source: The Wind in the Willows
Erma Bombeck (1927–1996) When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent le…
Paris Hilton (1981) American socialite
Variant: Every woman should have four pets in her life. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass who pays for everything.
Hans Christian Andersen book The Princess and the Pea
The Princess and the Pea
Fairy Tales (1835)
Source: The Princess and the Pea: The Graphic Novel
L.J. Smith (1965) American author
Source: The Strange Power
Nicholas Sparks (1965) American writer and novelist
Travis Parker, Proloque, p. 3
2000s, The Choice (2007)
Anthony Burgess (1917–1993) English writer
Non-Fiction, English Literature: A Survey for Students (1958, revised 1974)
Courtney Love (1964) American punk singer-songwriter, musician, actress, and artist
"Drown Soda"
Song lyrics, B-sides and compilations
“…and you may sleep quietly in your beds.”
John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher (1841–1920) Royal Navy admiral of the fleet
Speech at The Royal Academy Banquet, 1903, regarding the threat of invasion. <br class="br"> p. 83. https://archive.org/stream/cu31924027924509#page/n113/mode/1up <br class="br">The phrase 'Sleep quiet in your beds' appears in Records, p. 85 https://archive.org/stream/cu31924027924509#page/n116/mode/1up and Memories, p. 202. https://archive.org/stream/memoriesbyadmira00fishuoft#page/202/mode/1up <br class="br">The phrase 'So sleep easy in your beds' was used for the title for the sixth episode of the BBC documentary The Great War. <br class="br"> Records (1919) https://archive.org/stream/cu31924027924509#page/n0/mode/1up
Stephen Jay Gould book Dinosaur in a Haystack
"Magnolias from Moscow", p. 403
Dinosaur in a Haystack (1995)