"Murder" Quotation

[Joel S. Berson]

These are all pretty obvious, I expect, and probably too imprecise to
point to findable evidence, but I think I remember something like
this quote from years ago.

New Yorker cartoon?  Perhaps now in their collection of lawyer jokes?
Algonquin Club?
Dorothy Parker?

(On the other hand, being curious myself I looked in Google Book
Search , where it is "also attributed" by Cassell's Humorous
Quotations to Elizabeth Longford, historian wife of the 7th ...  I
wonder who the other is.)

Joel

At 8/5/2006 09:20 PM, Fred Shapiro wrote:
>I would welcome any information pointing to the earliest findable evidence
>for the anecdote about a woman being asked whether she had ever considered
>divorcing her husband, and responding something like "Divorce, never.
>Murder, frequently."

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