• Variants exist. The phrase is rendered as "When a man marries his mistress, he creates a vacancy" in "The crisis that could follow Croesus", The Daily Telegraph (21 July 1997), p. 5. The Daily Telegraph article attributes the coinage of this phrase to the French actor Sacha Guitry. Goldsmith's death led to speculation about his estimated assets of £1.6 billion.
When you marry your mistress you automatically create a vacancy.
What It Means
This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "When you marry your mistress you automatically create a vacancy." in the context of "Reportedly said when he divorced his second wife, Ginette Léry, for his third, Lady Annabel Goldsmith (c. 1978), as cited in "Passions of a jolly green giant", The Guardian (6 December 1993), p. 0
• Variants exist. The phrase is rendered as "When a man marries his mistress, he creates a vacancy" in "The crisis that could follow Croesus", The Daily Telegraph (21 July 1997), p. 5. The Daily Telegraph article attributes the coinage of this phrase to the French actor Sacha Guitry. Goldsmith's death led to speculation about his estimated assets of £1.6 billion." to mean that wisdom is timeless.
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