Quote On Graham Norton Radio Show

[vernonk]

On last Saturday's Graham Norton show on Radio 2, he read out a quote, I think from Mark Twain, that had been sent in by a listener. It was to do with relationships. Anyone recall it?

[Mamyalynne]

Didn't hear the programme but this is one of his...

“People talk about beautiful relationships between two persons of the same sex. What is the best of that sort as compared with the friendship of man and wife where the best impulses and highest ideals of both are the same? There is no place for comparison between the two friendships; the one is earthly, the other divine.”


― Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

[vernonk]

Nope, not that. No point in guessing as there are masses of Twain quotes

[Mamyalynne]

Well, I'll stop then, sorry to have wasted your time.

[choux]

vernon, you old smooth talker!

Fill your boots, it's here ;)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03vzvz3

[askyourgran]

That quote was nice mamya. I didn't watch it either Vernon, why don't you Google through the 'masses' of Twain quotes and find it?

[choux]

If, indeed, it was Mark Twain. Might have been Samuel Langhorne Clemens ...

[Mamyalynne]

Well done Choux, are there still charm schools?

[boxtops]

:-)

[Misky]

I heard this - it was something like "don't let one person be your everything when you are only an option to them". That's not it exactly but it was the meaning, and might help you find the exact quote somewhere...

[merylpeep]

"Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option." — Mark Twain.