“Generation after generation of short-spanned living creatures has ripened and rotted, they looking calmly on, superior in their unwithering amaranthine bloom—generation after… — Rhoda Broughton Copy Share Image
“The only course to pursue to make life bearable on such a day, at least for women (I speak not of men,… — Rhoda Broughton Copy Share Image
“The first of these occupations Kate Chester loved. Give her a book, and she could be happy still. It was one of… — Rhoda Broughton Copy Share Image
“Life certainly was not so jocund a thing to her as to most young women. She had had one or two very… — Rhoda Broughton Copy Share Image
“Yes, the play of her life had begun, and whether it was to be a tragedy or a comedy who could tell?[99]… — Rhoda Broughton Copy Share Image
“Poor Victor! poor Victor!” she thought; and then she tried mentally to project herself into the situation of the wretched, remorseful Frenchwoman, the coquette… — Rhoda Broughton Copy Share Image
“Great kingdoms grew into being in the old times, at least we suppose so, we having now nothing of them but their dark old… — Rhoda Broughton Copy Share Image
“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,… — Rhoda Broughton Copy Share Image
“To how few people a premonition of what is going to happen to them, either of sweet or sour, is vouchsafed! Is it a… — Rhoda Broughton Copy Share Image
“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,… — Rhoda Broughton Copy Share Image
“Since this time yesterday she had made the pleasing discovery that she was fast falling in love violently, and as it now appeared unrequitedly,… — Rhoda Broughton Copy Share Image
“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… — Rhoda Broughton Copy Share Image
“And yet, despite all my reasoning to the contrary, I feel that the father and sons in the Laocoon are men and not gods.… — Rhoda Broughton Copy Share Image
“Look at me now. I have done very well without love, at least love in that technical sense, without this fine passion, for twenty… — Rhoda Broughton Copy Share Image
“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… — Rhoda Broughton Copy Share Image
“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… — Rhoda Broughton Copy Share Image
“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… — Rhoda Broughton Copy Share Image
![“Yes, the play of her life had begun, and whether it was to be a tragedy or a comedy who could tell?[99] Probably, neither; most people’s are neither the one nor the other,—too prosaically free from any great emotions or grand situations for tragedy, too triste[100] and serious for comedy. To me…” quote by Rhoda Broughton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/fbb/rhoda-broughton-25508_humor_yes-the-play-of-her-life-had-begun-and-w_2854629.jpg)
![“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, trite commonplaces which enrol themselves under the head of moral maxims. Of course it is true—tiresomely, provokingly, heart-breakingly…” quote by Rhoda Broughton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/16a/rhoda-broughton-25508_beauty_beauty-is-a-fading-flower-3-and-applied_371805.jpg)
![“To how few people a premonition of what is going to happen to them, either of sweet or sour, is vouchsafed! Is it a blessing or a curse? A blessing, I suppose, on the principle of “whatever is, is right”[376]—-a blessing even apart from that doctrine, I think. Would the delight of gloating over…” quote by Rhoda Broughton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/3d3/rhoda-broughton-25508_blessings_to-how-few-people-a-premonition-of-what_666590.jpg)
