Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement. — William Morris Copy Share Image
I am aware of the damp souls of housemaids Sprouting despondently at area gates. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Every housemaid expects at least once a week as much excitement as would have lasted a Jane Austen heroine throughout a whole… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Disorder in a drawing-room is vulgar; in an antiquary's study, not; the black battle-stain on a soldier's face is not vulgar, but… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
All the housemaid hopes is, happiness for 'em - but marriage is a lottery, and the more she thinks about it, the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I will not take up your time, dear boy, with telling you what is the matter with me. Life is brief, and… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
Women should have the true nurse calling, the good of the sick first the second only the consideration of what is their… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
Actual evidence I have none, But my aunt's charwoman's sister's son Heard a policeman, on his beat Say to a housemaid in… — Reginald Arkell Copy Share Image
You would not call me a marrying man, Watson?" "No, indeed!" "You'll be interested to hear that I'm engaged." "My dear fellow!… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
I plodded conscientiously through the twenty-six letters, and the only malady I could conclude I had not got was housemaid's knee. — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
All I can say about my mind is that, like a fire carefully laid by a good housemaid, it is one that… — Margot Asquith Copy Share Image
If I'd been a housemaid I'd have been the best in Australia - I couldn't help it. It's got to be perfection… — Nellie Melba Copy Share Image
Other people have faces; Susan and Jinny have faces; they are here. Their world is the real world. The things they lift… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I found it, miss," Meggie exclaimed breathlessly, extending the coin in her hand. It was possible that she had never held a… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
At first it was the incomes of corporations, then of rich citizens, then of well-provided widows and opulent workers, and finally the… — Frank Chodorov Copy Share Image
Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement; a sanded floor and whitewashed walls… — William Morris Copy Share Image
