Quotes About Society

And as for me, well, just say that I'm feeling a bit ill. My falling out with Alex will probably be the latest on-dit by then, and everyone will expect me to be thoroughly heartbroken.

The world would be a much happier place if people would just listen to me before they up and got married," she added. "I could have the entire Marriage Mart matched up in a week.

Jeder wusste, dass Sophie Beckett ein Bankert war.

But when they were laughing together, just the two of them poking fun at some silly society rule, his eyes changed. They grew softer, gentler, more at ease. In her more fanciful moments, she almost thought they looked as if they were melting.

Waistlines were dropping in the capital; the forgiving billows of the Regency style were giving way to something far more structured and uncomfortable. By 1840, Iris predicted, women would be corseted into nothingness.

the gentlemen of Britain couldn't appreciate the inherent value of an intelligent female who knew her own mind, that was their problem, not hers.

Many a woman has been ruined by a single kiss." Excerpt From The Duke and I Julia Quinn This material may be protected by copyright.

Anthony?" she whispered. Maybe if he spoke to her, maybe if he just looked at her she might glean some clue as to what he was thinking. "We will marry next week," he stated. His voice was firm and clear, but otherwise devoid of emotion. "Oh, good!" Lady Bridgerton said with great relief, clapping her hands together.

Richard was to think he could pass off her child as his and not have it rain unhappiness later. If it was a girl, they might make it work, but if Fleur had a boy . . . Clearly they needed to find that girl a husband. Iris still didn't understand why no one else seemed to see this. Fleur flat out

They had that air about them - five hundred years of breeding and a membership to White's.

ROMANCING MISTER BRIDGERTON

and ever since she heard me calling you 'Dear Heart' at the theater last month, I have not been able to show my face at my clubs." "Is it so very unfashionable to love one's wife, then?" Daphne teased.

Nobody ever thinks it's nice to see me...But I thank you for lying all the same. ~ Lady Danbury

Colin knew the ton well. He knew how his peers acted. The aristocracy was capable of individual greatness, but collectively they tended to sink to the lowest common denominator.

All politics are based on the indifference of the majority.

I think that society is aspiring towards racial indifference, but the reality of life is not that. And so when you meet someone, you can see their race - it's right there on their face - and I feel like it's interesting.

The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.

No society can exist without some means for restraining individual rapacity.

The farther a society progresses, the more clearly the individual becomes the antithesis of the group.

Classical liberalism is the idea that individual freedom and limited government are the best way for humans to form a free society.

Individualism is a formidable lie.

Now, there's a desire for order, authority coming from a feeling that society has gone too far to the side of individualism and liberalism.

Everyone's an individual and individuality is such a strong thing in our society so that translates into wrestling.

One of the main foundations of our country is supposed to be that we value individuality, and unfortunately, that seems to be getting lost.