"It does seem simple, doesn't it?' she said,……" — Baroness Orczy
"It does seem simple, doesn't it?' she said, with a final bitter attempt at flippancy, 'when you want to kill a chicken...you take hold of it...then you wring its neck...it's only the chicken who does not find it quite so simple. Now you hold a knife at my throat, and a hostage for my obedience...You find it simple...I don't"
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Baroness Orczy
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24 Quotes by Baroness Orczy
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