"It is to be regretted that domestication has……" — Isabella Beeton
"It is to be regretted that domestication has seriously deteriorated the moral character of the duck. In a wild state, he is a faithful husband.....but no sooner is he domesticated than he becomes polygamous, and makes nothing of owning ten or a dozen wives at a time."
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Isabella Beeton
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10 Quotes by Isabella Beeton
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The half-hour before dinner has always been considered as the great ordeal through which the mistress, in giving a dinner-party,…
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Dining is the privilege of civilization. . . . The nation which knows how to dine has learnt the leading…
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A good kitchen should be sufficiently remote from the principal apartments of the house, that the members, visitors, or guests…
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The kitchen is the great laboratory of the household, and much of the 'weal and woe' as far as regards…
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Afternoon tea should be provided, fresh supplies, with thin bread-and-butter, fancy pastries, cakes, etc., being brought in as other guests…
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I have always thought that there is no more fruitful source of family discontent than a housewife's badly cooked dinners…
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What moved me, in the first instance, to attempt a work like this, was the discomfort and suffering which I…
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As in the fine arts, the progress of mankind from barbarism to civilisation is marked by a gradual succession of…
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