Dark ages Quote by Kim Harrison

“She liked to convey that she was well acquainted with the smartness and the manners of the stylish world, but that she had got…

— Robert Musil

“Were the beaux less generous over time? Her assets less marketable? If she had lived to be old, would she have resided in a…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“I held a brief debate with myself as to whether I should change my ordinary attire for something smarter. At last I concluded it…

— Charlotte Brontë

“From my personal experiences, it is evident that so many wealthy females within the kingdom are devoted to little else but frivolity, with their…

— Jean Sasson

“she had always considered that, far from the world of Ealing and its county councillors who over-ate and neighed like stallions, there were bright…

— Ford Madox Ford

“Blessed with riches and possibilities far beyond anything imagined by ancestors who tilled the unpredictable soil of medieval Europe, modern populations have nonetheless shown…

— Alain de Botton

“That as my sister-in-law at Colchester had said, beauty, wit, manners, sense, good humour, good behaviour, education, virtue, piety, or any other qualification, whether…

— Daniel Defoe

“To give you an idea of my state of mind I can not do better than compare it to one of those rooms we…

— Alfred De Musset

“It's not like the Middle Ages, when you had the Church and the aristocracy keeping everything nice and stagnant.”

— Kevin Hearne

“The manner of the woman was ungracious; but her words were true. They saw that their presence could do nothing towards the alleviation of…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Women’s beauty is a sweet coat to something more sinister- a bribe to men to plunge into the unknown”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

“figure full of the affluent beauty of womanhood in its prime, bearing unmistakable marks of the polished pupil of the world in the grace…

— Louisa May Alcott