Rumer Godden Quotes

No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.

My personal life was very important for me, the people I am with, my friends, where I go.

Every family goes through ups and downs. You may want a relationship with someone, which your family may not approve of but they don't stop loving you.

I can sit down with my sisters, and they can talk about my body in a certain way, and I will laugh about it with them. That's such a comfortable and loving relationship. But if a stranger I meet in a party makes the same comment, depending on their tone, that's not okay.

I'm not disrespectful to anybody that I'm cool with.

I don't mind it. My friends think it's kind of rude of the people to come up to me and treat me like an object.

For any healthy relationship to work, you have to be able have that time to spend with your friends.

Even though I'm a free spirit, I like to keep my friends and my lovers separate. I have extraordinary friends, but I don't want to see them naked.

Thank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful.

I won't consider getting horizontal with someone I can barely tolerate when we're vertical.

You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can’t pick your friend’s nose.

You have to realise that touching is a real violation of personal space.

You can choose your friends, but you sho' can't choose your family.

There are two sure ways to lose a friend, one is to borrow, the other to lend.

You were supposed to empathize with your friend's problem, but they were, after all, your friend's problems.

Newish friends, if they get ghastly, can be weighed and found wanting, but you'd never do a thing like that to old ones; their terrible habits are just part of the universe.

Visit your Aunt, but not every Day; and call at your Brother's, but not every night.

An American has no sense of privacy. He does not know what it means.There is no such thing in the country.

A ready way to lose your friend is to lend him money. Another equally ready way to lose him is to refuse to lend him money. It is six of one and a half dozen of the other.

If you want to have friends, you have to remember that nobody's perfect.

Civilization depends on, and civility often requires, the willingness to say, 'What you are doing is none of my business' and 'What I am doing is none of your business.'

fraught, adj. Does every “I love you” deserve an “I love you too”? Does every kiss deserve a kiss back? Does every night deserve to be spent on a lover? If the answer to any of these is “No,” what do we do?

It's not considered polite in Russia to count the money in someone else's pocket.

Be civil to all; serviceable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.

There is no etiquette rule that decrees one must give out personal information to anyone who asks.