India Rubber Quotes

“She was, in fact, one of those people of exalted principles; one of those opinionated puritans, of which England produces so many; one of those good and insupportable old maids who haunt the tables d'hôte of every hotel in Europe, who spoil Italy, poison Switzerland, render the charming cities of the Mediterranean uninhabitable, carry everywhere their fantastic manias, their manners of petrified vestals, their indescribable toilets and a certain odor of india-rubber which makes one believe that at night they are slipped into a rubber casing.”
― Guy de Maupassant, Miss Harriet et autres nouvelles

“The human heart is like india-rubber; a little swells it, but a great deal will not burst it.”
― Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey