Quotes About Vapors

She wore tight corsets to give her a teeny waist - I helped her lace them up - but they had the effect of causing her to faint. Mom called it the vapors and said it was a sign of her high breeding and delicate nature. I thought it was a sign that the corset made it hard to breathe.

What did you do?" "Nothing. Miss Dandridge interceded by pretending to have the vapors or whatever it is women have when they faint dead away." "She fainted?" "No, but she gave a good impression of heading that way." He smiled. "She really is something else.

What exists is real; therefore it is tragic, since whatever lives must die. Only fantasy, the vapors rising from sheer nonsense, can now excite my laughter.

And as you put it once, Bath is a small place, so naturally we must expect to encounter one another. It's not as if I were lying in wait to see which way you went when you left your aunt's house this morning." She'd never had an attack of the vapors, but as she imagined him doing just that, like something out of a novel, she had an inkling of what the vapors must be like. Surely he hadn't actually done that, though. He was probably just saying that to disturb her.