Farmgirl At Large: Ranking Roberts

Sunday, November 17, 2013

Here is a list of my favorite actors named Robert from favorite to least favorite:

Robert Montgomery
Robert Downey Jr.
Robert DuVall (almost solely based on being Boo Radley in To Kill a Mockingbird, just thinking about that scene is enough to make me cry)
Robert Cummings
Robert Young
All other Roberts including Roberts Loggia, Lowe, Ryan, Ulrich, Mitchum, Redford, Taylor, and De Niro.

Favorite Austen Quotes

"If there is anything disagreeable men are sure to get out of it."- Persuasion
"You are too sensible a girl... to fall in love merely because you have been warned against it. " - Pride and Prejudice
"A woman is not to marry a man merely because she is asked."- Emma
"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not the pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid." - Northanger Abbey
"A fondness for reading... must be an education in itself"- Mansfield Park
"Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it." - Sense and Sensibility
"I hate to hear you talking so, like a fine gentleman, and as if women were all fine ladies, instead of rational creatures. We none of us expect to be in smooth waters all our days." - Persuasion
"For what do we live but to make sport of our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?"- Pride and Prejudice