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Quotes About Fishwife

For this, Clio has abused me in language less befitting a Muse than a fishwife. I do not care. I would rather be chidden by Clio than by my own sense of delicacy, any day.
~ Max Beerbohm
Would you like to hear more romance of the evening? He told me that the Guard should be reduced by half, and I threw an ink jar at his head. Is that when he cried? He ducked, Attolia said dryly. Grown more confident of the queen's humor, Relius said, I had not pictured you for a fishwife. Lo, the transforming power of love.
~ Megan Whalen Turner