Quotes from Marion Chesney

may ask me anything." "How long would it take to get a closed stove installed

Poverty is the mother of crime. —MARCUS AURELIUS

Gentlemen never get the blame in such circumstances. You should know that.

We are at the cross-ways. If we stand on in the old happy-go-lucky way, the richer classes ever growing in wealth and in number, and ever declining in responsibility, the very poor remaining plunged or plunging even deeper into helpless, hopeless misery, then I think there is nothing before us but savage strife between class and class. —WINSTON CHURCHILL, SPEECH AT LEICESTER, 1909

What is love? she asked... It is a perpetual longing for someone that gets into your blood. That someone lives inside your head, haunting you, filling your soul with dreams-dreams that could well turn to tragedy were they never to be fulfilled, he reaplied...

Aubrey Davenport was dressed like a fop, had the manners of a fop, and appeared to have the intelligence of a potato.

A felicidade e os sonhos acabavam de ganhar nova vida. Enquanto houvesse um homem por perto, havia esperança.

you know the sisters were a bunch of Puseyites, all bells and smells

Above all, do not say anything intelligent. Gentlemen abhor intelligent women.

Miss Manson," said Freddie, "I think I love you.

managers, and, after her stay at that terrible old coaching inn, The Boar's Head, she welcomed even the

I shall feel safer when we are through Knightsbridge.

Is this the home of Mr. and Mrs. Kendall?" he asked, wondering whether he had arrived by mistake at a brothel that was throwing some sort of a party. "Oh

He would have been very upset had he known that his neighbours all considered Delilah a terrible flirt, a minx, and pitied him accordingly.

She would rather die of starvation at a good address than live genteelly at an unfashionable one.

Chrysanthemums were a new flower, recently imported for the first time and therefore considered fashionable, but Amy thought they smelled of autumn. Another autumn. Another year nearer the grave.

The Egyptian mode, for example, often led the squire to think the Egyptians must have had a very uncomfortable time of it.

He was a small, chubby little man with a perpetual air of sadness about him, making him look like a baby that has dropped its rattle.

but Mrs. Battersby had become that most unsympathetic of creatures, a self-ordained martyr

Do as I tell you,' shouted Annabelle, 'or I shall pinch you and pinch you until you are black and blue.

and felt a little stabbing impulse to kick the squire on his backside as he left the room.

In fact, I cannot envisage any future time where I should want to do anything at all to capture your attention.

Everyone knew that any man could be seduced by the sight of a perfect pair of elbows.

In fact the whole of two-faced society paid only lip service to the ten commandments and committed adultery, stole, and cheated at cards, because, after all, it was only the eleventh commandment that mattered—Thou Shalt Not Get Found Out.