Courses Quote by Fanny Kemble

A good many causes tend to make good masters and mistresses quite as rare as good servants… The large and rapid fortunes by which…

— Fanny Kemble

“A sincere person owes it to themselves to expose the frightful barbarity which still prevails in the hidden depths of a society so outwardly…

— Élisée Reclus

In the evaluation of the dominant moods of any historical period it is important to hold fast to the fact that there are always…

— Erik Erikson

“I had no power of withdrawing my person from a disgustful society, in the most cheerful and valuable part of the day; but I…

— William Godwin

Whoever prefers the material comforts of life over intellectual wealth is like the owner of a palace who moves into the servants’ quarters and…

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not…

— Frederick Douglass

When the mind loses its feeling for elegance, it grows corrupt and groveling, and seeks in the crowd what ought to be found at…

— Walter Savage Landor

If, in looking at the lives of princes, courtiers, men of rank and fashion, we must perforce depict them as idle, profligate, and criminal,…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

If therefore our houses be houses of the Lord, we shall for that reason love home, reckoning our daily devotion the sweetest of our…

— Matthew Henry

“They learned to live contently with small things, to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion, to be worthy not respectable,…

— David Paul Kirkpatrick

Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of a mind with a turn like mine that I must…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“The understatement rule means that a debilitating and painful chronic illness must be described as ‘a bit of a nuisance’; a truly horrific experience…

— Kate Fox