--- title: "1 Book Happy Quotes By Rhoda Broughton" description: "1 Book Happy quotes by Rhoda Broughton. Plus more from Rhoda Broughton and more Book Happy sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2e8/rhoda-broughton-25508_books_the-first-of-these-occupations-kate-ches_2301350.jpg" --- > [“The first of these occupations Kate Chester loved. Give her a book, and she could be happy still. It was one of the few pleasures that remained to her quite intact, quite unmarred by all that had come and gone.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rhoda-broughton/the-first-of-these-occupations-kate-chester-loved-give-her-a-book-and/) [Rhoda Broughton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rhoda-broughton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2e8/rhoda-broughton-25508_books_the-first-of-these-occupations-kate-ches_2301350.jpg) ## More by Rhoda Broughton > [“Poor Victor! poor Victor!” she thought; and then she tried mentally to project herself into the situation of the wretched, remorseful Frenchwoman, the coquette…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rhoda-broughton/poor-victor-poor-victor-she-thought-and-then-she-tried-mentally-to/) [Rhoda Broughton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rhoda-broughton/) > [“Great kingdoms grew into being in the old times, at least we suppose so, we having now nothing of them but their dark old…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rhoda-broughton/great-kingdoms-grew-into-being-in-the-old-times-at-least-we-suppose/) [Rhoda Broughton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rhoda-broughton/) > [ “Beauty is a fading flower;”\[3\] and, applied particularly to woman’s loveliness, there is none more favourite among that bundle of dull platitudes, of insipid,… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rhoda-broughton/beauty-is-a-fading-flower-3-and-applied-particularly-to-woman-s/) [Rhoda Broughton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rhoda-broughton/) > [“To how few people a premonition of what is going to happen to them, either of sweet or sour, is vouchsafed! Is it a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rhoda-broughton/to-how-few-people-a-premonition-of-what-is-going-to-happen-to-them/) [Rhoda Broughton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rhoda-broughton/) > [“IT seems a stupid hackneyed sort of thing to say—a thing whose point by much wear is worn out, a thing which everybody says,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rhoda-broughton/it-seems-a-stupid-hackneyed-sort-of-thing-to-say-a-thing-whose-point/) [Rhoda Broughton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rhoda-broughton/) > [“Since this time yesterday she had made the pleasing discovery that she was fast falling in love violently, and as it now appeared unrequitedly,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rhoda-broughton/since-this-time-yesterday-she-had-made-the-pleasing-discovery-that/) [Rhoda Broughton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rhoda-broughton/) > [“Kate stood by that low bed, looking down earnestly on its occupant—that occupant that was now a person, and soon would be—O, fearful metamorphosis!—but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rhoda-broughton/kate-stood-by-that-low-bed-looking-down-earnestly-on-its-occupant/) [Rhoda Broughton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rhoda-broughton/) > [“And yet, despite all my reasoning to the contrary, I feel that the father and sons in the Laocoon are men and not gods.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rhoda-broughton/and-yet-despite-all-my-reasoning-to-the-contrary-i-feel-that-the/) [Rhoda Broughton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rhoda-broughton/) > [“Look at me now. I have done very well without love, at least love in that technical sense, without this fine passion, for twenty…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rhoda-broughton/look-at-me-now-i-have-done-very-well-without-love-at-least-love-in/) [Rhoda Broughton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rhoda-broughton/) > [“1864 Broughton’s sister Eleanor marries William Charles Newcome; Broughton makes her home with them at Upper Eyarth in Denbyshire. She shows her uncle by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rhoda-broughton/1864-broughton-s-sister-eleanor-marries-william-charles-newcome/) [Rhoda Broughton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rhoda-broughton/) > [“Man is so entirely dependent on man—so much a part, so little a whole—that I do not believe he is intended to be so…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rhoda-broughton/man-is-so-entirely-dependent-on-man-so-much-a-part-so-little-a-whole/) [Rhoda Broughton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rhoda-broughton/) > [“Generation after generation of short-spanned living creatures has ripened and rotted, they looking calmly on, superior in their unwithering amaranthine bloom—generation after generation has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rhoda-broughton/generation-after-generation-of-short-spanned-living-creatures-has/) [Rhoda Broughton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rhoda-broughton/) > [“I must try and be good, or clever, or eccentric, for it was very evident that pretty I could never be”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rhoda-broughton/i-must-try-and-be-good-or-clever-or-eccentric-for-it-was-very-evident/) [Rhoda Broughton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rhoda-broughton/) > [“What was it to her whether people would laugh or sneer at what she was doing? No such notion ever crossed her mind; the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rhoda-broughton/what-was-it-to-her-whether-people-would-laugh-or-sneer-at-what-she/) [Rhoda Broughton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rhoda-broughton/) > [“The only course to pursue to make life bearable on such a day, at least for women (I speak not of men, considering their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rhoda-broughton/the-only-course-to-pursue-to-make-life-bearable-on-such-a-day-at/) [Rhoda Broughton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rhoda-broughton/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/book-happy/rhoda-broughton/#itemlist", "name": "1 Book Happy Quotes By Rhoda Broughton", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“The first of these occupations Kate Chester loved. Give her a book, and she could be happy still. 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