The Take Quotes

“I’m a great believer in anything that gets anyone reading”
― Martina Cole, The Take

“find a positive instead of a negative, and you will find your life is much easier to bear. The”
― Martina Cole, The Take

“find a positive instead of a negative, and you will find your life is much easier to bear.”
― Martina Cole, The Take

“will always be there for you, and so will your dad. We might fight and argue, but we are family at bottom, eh?”
― Martina Cole, The Take

“Life is what you make it,”
― Martina Cole, The Take

“You have a blank piece of paper, Glenford, and what you eventually write on it is of your own doing. Good or bad, you have to decide for yourself.”
― Martina Cole, The Take

“life was just a series of events, that was all, and you had no real power over it whatsoever. You just thought you did.”
― Martina Cole, The Take

“get yourself a good bed and a good pair of shoes, because if you ain’t in one, you are in the other.”
― Martina Cole, The Take

“But she wanted her mother to know that she did love her. All day, every day, she loved her.”
― Martina Cole, The Take

“you couldn’t fight age, not really. If you had ten face-lifts and your whole body remodelled, you might look younger but you would still be fifty or sixty or whatever. Looking younger did not make you younger. Time passed, and the older you got the quicker it seemed to go.”
― Martina Cole, The Take

“Like the old adage, you never knew what you had till it was gone.”
― Martina Cole, The Take

“Even if we take matrimony at its lowest, even if we regard it as no more than a sort of friendship recognised by the police. - Robert Louis Stevenson, 1850-1894 Virginibus Puerisque The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge. - Ezekiel, 18:2 The Bible”
― Martina Cole, The Take

“Be serene. It is not what happens to you, it is how you deal with it.”
― Martina Cole, The Take

“Thou shalt not steal; an empty feat, When it’s so lucrative to cheat. - Arthur Hugh Clough ‘The Latest Decalogue’ Proprium humani ingenii est odisse quem laeseris. It is part of human nature to hate the man you have hurt. - Tacitus Aricola,”
― Martina Cole, The Take

“People only do to you what you let them.”
― Martina Cole, The Take

“A man could love a woman but she would never be his be-all and end-all, though a clever man might let her think she was, of course. But nature would always out. The mother of the main children must be taken care of at all costs and a man had to know that any children he was bringing up were his own. No cuckoos in the fucking nest to grow and betray you at some point. You had to be careful.”
― Martina Cole, The Take

“Woman, a pleasing but short-lived flower, Too soft for business and too weak for power: A wife in bondage, or neglected maid: Despised, if ugly; if she’s fair, betrayed. - Mary Leapor, 1722-1746 ‘An Essay on Woman’ Do not adultery commit; Advantage rarely comes of it. - Arthur Hugh Clough, 1819-1861 ‘The Latest Decalogue”
― Martina Cole, The Take