History Quote by H.G. Wells

“Brigitte was a big help to Richard’s parents. During the day she looked for firewood and later helped her grandmother with the cooking, which…

— Captain Hank Bracker, "Suppresed I Rise

“She was, in fact, one of those people of exalted principles; one of those opinionated puritans, of which England produces so many; one of…

— Guy de Maupassant

“(All those paintings of women, in art galleries, surprised at private moments. Nymph Sleeping. Susanna and the Elders. Woman bathing, one foot in a…

— Margaret Atwood

“They knew so well how it felt, that they kept one bed in the boys' room, and any man who came at dusk got…

— Gene Stratton-Porter

“The year was dying early, the leaves were falling fast, it was a raw cold day when we took possession, and the gloom of…

— Charles Dickens

“But here there were houses full of *stuff*, fancy sheets woven with silk floss as soft as a baby's bum; fancy washstands carved of…

— Meredith Duran

“All of the women in that time and place, Thea had learned, were stuffed into muslin and starched cotton and forced to sit ramrod-straight…

— Meg Wolitzer

“YESTERDAY afternoon set in misty and cold. I had half a mind to spend it by my study fire, instead of wading through heath…

— Emily Brontë

“I have dealt with the poor, Bathsheba. They need a great deal, but I do not believe they feel any great want for aristocratic…

— Loretta Chase

The auld wife sat at her ivied door, (Butter and eggs and a pound of cheese) A thing she had frequently done before; And…

— Charles Stuart Calverley

“That she made a point to eat only the gristliest chicken bits, the burned biscuits, the mealiest potatoes, while she complained that his children…

— Paul Harding

“...he was presently rewarded with the sight of the present day disgrace of England. Out of the bathing tent, and into the full sunlight,…

— Henry De Vere Stacpoole