Quotes About Society

I'm as handsome as ever, but no one takes any notice of me because I'm married.

Well, my love, I consider him a trump, in the fullest sense of that expressive word, but I do wish he was a little younger and a good deal richer. Now, Laurie, don't be too fastidious and worldly-minded. If they love one another it doesn't matter a particle how old they are nor how poor. Women never should marry for money... Amy caught herself up short as the words escaped her, and looked at her husband, who replied, with malicious gravity...

beginning to desecrate some of the womanliest attributes of a woman's character. She was living in bad society; and, imaginary though it was, its influence affected her, for she was feeding heart and fancy on dangerous and unsubstantial food, and was fast brushing the innocent bloom from her nature by a premature acquaintance with the darker side of life, which comes soon enough to all of us.

Queens of society can't get on without money, so you mean to make a good match, and start in that way? Quite right and proper, as the world goes, but it sounds odd from the lips of one of your mother's girls.

She very soon discovered that there is a charm about fine clothes which attracts a certain class of people and secures their respect. Several young ladies, who had taken no notice

I don't believe fine young ladies enjoy themselves a bit more than we do, in spite of our burnt hair, old gowns, one glove apiece, and tight slippers that sprain our ankles when we are really silly enough to wear them. and I think jo was quite right.

Melhor ser uma solteirona feliz do que uma esposa infeliz ou uma moça de comportamento impróprio, correndo atrás de marido.

Don't go to school, I'm a businessman—girl, I mean.

But remember, dear, that it is both bad taste and bad economy for poor people to try to ape the rich.

There is very little real liberty in the world; even those who seem freest are often the most tightly bound. Law, custom, public opinion, fear or shame make slaves of us all...

I will weep with you over the children of kings, provided that you will weep with me over the children of the people." "I weep for all," said the Bishop. "Equally!" exclaimed conventionary G——; "and if the balance must incline, let it be on the side of the people. They have been suffering longer.

No puedo conformarme con haber nacido mujer, y ahora más que nunca, pues quisiera luchar al lado de papá y sin embargo me veo obligada a permanecer en casa haciendo calceta como una vieja.

Seems to me poor children

Girls write to ask who the little women marry, as if that was the only aim and end of a woman's life. I won't marry Jo to Laurie to please anyone.

Más vale ser una solterona feliz que una esposa desgraciada o una jovencita desvergonzada ávida por encontrar marido

I only know that it's the way of the world; and people who set themselves against it, only get laughed at for their pains.

I should give Mother a new bonnet first of all, for I heard Miss Kent say no lady would wear such a shabby one. Mrs. Smith said fine bonnets didn't make real ladies, though.

Não faça assim, Jo, é coisa de moleque. ââ'¬â€œÉ por isso mesmo que faço. –Detesto meninas grosseiras e pouco femininas. –Odeio sirigaitas afetadas e cheias de dedos.

Three decades of being the most respectable science professional or suburban mother count for nothing set against one fuck in a doorway.

For you, not vaccinating me was a class thing. Upper-class delusionals can afford to indulge their paranoias only because the masses bear the so-called dangers of vaccinations.

The colored race is not ready it seems to me for high culture.

He will willingly fill the more menial positions, and do the heavy work, at less wages, than the American white man

People were "governed more by passion and prejudice than by an enlightened sense of their interests

It seems to me that as the cities grow larger the country in general becomes weaker.