The real essence of any marriage that has struggled, however unsuccessfully, towards happiness, lies in the growth of a wordless understanding that what is acceptable to one partner will be acceptable to the other.
There can be no summary and dramatic end to a marriage - only a slow and painful unravelling of a tangled skein of threads too stubborn to be broken. - Wallis Simpson
There can be no summary and dramatic end to a marriage - only a slow and painful unravelling of a tangled skein of threads too stubborn to be broken.
- Wallis Simpson
All this was mine; but I was a long time learning that wisdom and experience are things apart; that to taste life is not to be confused with understa… - Wallis Simpson
All this was mine; but I was a long time learning that wisdom and experience are things apart; that to taste life is not to be confused with understa…
Fortunately for the human race, pain, however piercing, is not a lasting emotion. The recollection of happiness lingers, but the consciousness never … - Wallis Simpson
Fortunately for the human race, pain, however piercing, is not a lasting emotion. The recollection of happiness lingers, but the consciousness never …
I hate this place. I shall hate it to my grave. - Wallis Simpson
I hate this place. I shall hate it to my grave.
A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge, and each marked off by … - Wallis Simpson
A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge, and each marked off by …
You can never be too rich or too thin. - Wallis Simpson
You can never be too rich or too thin.
I am so anxious for you not to abdicate and I think the fact that you do is going to put me in the wrong light to the entire world because they will … - Wallis Simpson
I am so anxious for you not to abdicate and I think the fact that you do is going to put me in the wrong light to the entire world because they will …
I'm not a beautiful woman. I'm nothing to look at, so the only thing I can do is dress better than anyone else. - Wallis Simpson
I'm not a beautiful woman. I'm nothing to look at, so the only thing I can do is dress better than anyone else.
There can be nothing more baffling in a human relationship than silence, the dark loom of doubts and questions unexpressed. - Wallis Simpson
There can be nothing more baffling in a human relationship than silence, the dark loom of doubts and questions unexpressed.
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