Mrs Bixby and the Colonel's Coat Quotes

“The man had a way of making her feel that she was altogether a rather remarkable woman, a person of subtle and exotic talents, fascinating beyond measure; and what a very different thing that was from the dentist husband at home who never succeeded in making her feel that she was anything but a sort of eternal patient, someone who dwelt in the waiting room, silent among the magazines, seldom if ever nowadays to be called in to suffer the finicky precise ministrations of those clean pink hands.”
― Roald Dahl, Mrs Bixby and the Colonel's Coat

“There are many of these stories going around, these wonderful wishful thinking dreamworld inventions of the unhappy male, but most of them are too fatuous to be worth repeating, and far too fruity to be put down on paper. There is one, however, that seems to be superior to the rest, particularly as it has the merit of being true.”
― Roald Dahl, Mrs Bixby and the Colonel's Coat

“To support these ladies in the manner to which they are accustomed, the men must work like slaves, which is of course precisely what they are.”
― Roald Dahl, Mrs Bixby and the Colonel's Coat