Quote by Diana Gabaldon

“You must,” I murmured to myself, and then my knees buckled. Lying on the floor, with the carved panels of the ceiling flickering dimly…

— Diana Gabaldon

“Under the eighteenth century fashion people did not so much all pretend to be young, as all agree to be old.”

— G.K. Chesterton

But the eighteenth century, on the whole, loathed melancholy.

— George Saintsbury

“I never go into the country for a change of air and a holiday. I always go instead into the eighteenth century.”

— Anatole France

“She dearly hoped her gender would not be a problem because she did not have the time to educate a man on the fine…

— Beverly Jenkins

“Watching her, he saw again how she teetered between adolescence and adulthood, with a raw sensuality that had to deposit her in a kind…

— Keith Ablow

“If it was occasionally ludicrous, it was always sublime. [Estelle Jussim on the 19th century Cult of the Beautiful.] ”

— Estelle Jussim

“I reflected wearily that it was not easy to be a Woman in these stirring times. I said it then and I say it…

— Elaine Dundy

“I believe, there is scarcely a young lady in the united kingdoms, who would not rather put up with the misfortune of being sought…

— Jane Austen

“...some small part of her had reacted to the passion inside him. Despite his role as a titled gentleman, there seemed to be a…

— Brenda Novak

“At the time, I must have been in my late twenties, a young man at the prime of his desires for a woman’s company.…

— Khaled Hosseini

“I swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness — a real thorough-going illness. For man’s everyday needs, it would have been…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky