“Always be civil to the girls, you never know who they may marry' is a aphorism which has saved many an English spinster from being treated like an Indian widow.”
― The Pursuit of Love & Love in a Cold Climate
― The Pursuit of Love & Love in a Cold Climate
“Even if I take him out for three hours every day, and go and chat to him for another hour, that leaves twenty hours for him all alone with nothing to do. Oh, why can't dogs read?”
― The Pursuit of Love
― The Pursuit of Love
“My dear Lady Kroesig, I have only read one book in my life, and that is ‘White Fang.’ It’s so frightfully good I’ve never bothered to read another.”
― The Pursuit of Love
― The Pursuit of Love
“It was furnished neither in good taste nor in bad taste, but simply with no attempt at taste at all...”
― The Pursuit of Love
― The Pursuit of Love
“The worst of being a Communist is the parties you may go to are - well - awfully funny and touching but not very gay...I don't see the point of sad parties, do you? And Left-wing people are always sad because they mind dreadfully about their causes, and the causes are always going so badly.”
― The Pursuit of Love & Love in a Cold Climate
― The Pursuit of Love & Love in a Cold Climate
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