“Young men often laugh at the sensible girls whom they secretly respect, and affect to admire the silly ones whom they secretly despise, because earnestness, intelligence, and womanly dignity are not the fashion.”
― An Old-Fashioned Girl
― An Old-Fashioned Girl
“When people say impossible, they usually mean improbable.”
― Siege and Storm
― Siege and Storm
“Oh, Mr. Thornton, I am not good enough!'
'Not good enough! Don't mock my own deep feeling of unworthiness.”
― North and South
'Not good enough! Don't mock my own deep feeling of unworthiness.”
― North and South
“Thus human beings judge of one another, superficially, casually, throwing contempt on one another, with but little reason, and no charity.”
― The Scarlet Pimpernel
― The Scarlet Pimpernel
“ 'Your beauty was the first that won the place, And scal'd the walls of my undaunted heart, Which, captive now, pines in a caitive case, Unkindly met with rigour for desert;— Yet not the less your servant shall abide, In spite of rude repulse or silent pride.' WILLIAM FOWLER.”
― North and South
― North and South
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