Marjorie Bowen > Quotes

“Flattery is so necessary to all of us that we flatter one another to be flattered in return”
― Marjorie Bowen

“He who don’t like me greasy shan’t have me nice.”
― Marjorie Bowen, Mistress Nell Gwyn

“They were all people whom I either knew too well or whom I didn't wish to know at all...”
― Marjorie Bowen, The Prescription

“I doubt not that some shall think this woman too slight a thing to be written of and set among the remembrances of great matters, but me-seemth the chance worthy to be remembered — for where, the King took displeasure she would mitigate and appease his mind; where men were out of favour she would bring them into his grace; for many that had highly of ended she would bring pardon; of great forfeitures she got men remission; and, finally, in many weighty suits she stood more in great stead.”
― Marjorie Bowen, Mistress Nell Gwyn

“mouth and the weight of dust heavy in his hand.”
― Marjorie Bowen, Mistress Nell Gwyn

“She reminded him of some clouds he had seen once on a still winter night, so faint in the moonlight that they appeared but a wisp of lighter blue on the deep azure of the sky. Yet to them was all the magic of the night due.”
― Marjorie Bowen

“Yet this little creature, of so mean an origin that she could not write her name, shone with an amiable lustre amid the corruptions and profanities of a Court, the scandal of her position and the enervation of luxury and pleasure — and this lustre she added to her generosity, her kindness and her womanly tenderness.”
― Marjorie Bowen, Mistress Nell Gwyn

“Some things it is not decent to write of the dead, or prudent to write of the living.”
― Marjorie Bowen, The Debate Continues