Alcohol Quote by Carol Storm

“Charity liked brandy. She liked the way it burned her throat while soothing the ache in her heart.”

— Elizabeth Jane Howard

“Charity didn't mean to waste the entire afternoon. But her favorite daytime drama was on the telly. It was always the same, she thought,…

— Elizabeth Jane Howard

“Giving the rugged repairman the eye was one thing -- but Charity had no intention of snogging away a whole rainy afternoon when she…

— Elizabeth Jane Howard

“Charity knew that she had to be up early in the morning. And she knew that a weepy, silly, ridiculously old-fashioned love story was…

— Elizabeth Jane Howard

“Lady Margaret's icy blue eyes were enough to give Charity chills -- but the brandy in the cut-glass decanter was enough to melt the…

— Carol Storm

“Charity felt crumpled and wrung out after her cry, like a sponge that had gone through a week of dishes. Of course Lady Beddington…

— Elizabeth Jane Howard

“Lady Margaret believed in the three D's: Discipline, Desire, and Determination. But as she listened dutifully to her new employer, hiding her yawns and…

— Elizabeth Jane Howard

“would place beside her in my mind’s eye the young competent woman, proud, courageous, and generous, I’d known as a child. I was living…

— Jill Ker Conway

“A working woman, rising before dawn to spin and needing light in her cottage room, piles brushwood on a smoldering log, and the whole…

— Appolonius Rhodius

“There she stood, hiding; the mother without child, the voiceless woman full of anger. Her smoked nails hammered her evaporated heart snivelling in the…

— Laura Gentile

“When she was drinking his liquor and smoking his cigars, Charity couldn't help warming to Sir Humphrey. She almost forgot what a crashing bore…

— Elizabeth Jane Howard

“Though she would never admit it to polite Society, Lady Georgette Thorold hated brandy almost as much as she hated husbands. So it was…

— Jennifer McQuiston