Quotes from Tasha Alexander

Please understand that. But it's essential we stay vigilant in the protection of our characters. What does a

Have you finished your tea? I want to show you the painting." "Monsieur," Cécile said. "Unless I am drinking champagne, I am always finished.

small measure of

lady have that matters more than her reputation?" "I can think of lots of things," I said, but wasn't allowed to continue.

Amelia Edward's Thousand Miles Up the Nile, Gertrude Bell's Persian Pictures, and Mary Kingsley's Travels in West Africa, Congo Français, Corisco, and Cameroons.

I would not love you so well if you were less headstrong.

I guess the truth is we never know every detail about another person.

Ah, no wonder the men of Troy and Argives under arms have suffered years of agony all for her, for such a woman. Beauty, terrible beauty! —The Iliad, Homer, TRANSLATED BY ROBERT FAGLES

of their own, one that will not support suffrage, and I'm afraid the Liberal Party leadership may prefer their priorities. What good is fighting for women's rights if those rights don't include being able to vote?

Edward the Caresser, as one of our always-creative papers referred to him, had other interests.

details of my afternoon, staying silent until I mentioned the

No, that's all done and dusted,

If he could get a commission to work on the murals in one of the Ringstrasse buildings, he would be in a much better position." "He'll never allow us to arrange such a thing, and I respect him immeasurably for it.

Lady Emily, and then consider your connection with the Women's Liberal Federation. It's very off-putting," she said. "People are beginning to talk." "Let them," I said. "I believe in what I'm doing." "You're just trying to get attention. No thinking person can believe women

You learn far more about character from

You know, Winifred, you begin to make me wonder if all women should have the right to vote.

people's secrets than you do their public acts.

And more still about the characters of those around them by studying their reactions to the secrets revealed.

bloody Married Women's Property Act.

at half eleven in the evening. You will receive further instructions there.

last the secret is out, as it always must come in the end, The delicious story is ripe to tell to the intimate friend; Over the teacups and in the square the tongue has its desire; Still waters run deep, my dear, there's never smoke without fire.

Behind the corpse in the reservoir, behind the ghost on the links, Behind the lady who dances and the man who madly drinks, Under the look of fatigue, the attack of migraine and the sigh There is always another story, there is more than meets the eye. For the clear voice suddenly singing, high up in the convent wall,

The scent of elder bushes, the sporting prints in the hall, The croquet matches in summer, the handshake, the cough, the kiss, There is always a wicked secret, a private reason for this. —W. H. Auden

All thinking people are in constant need of more books.