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“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

“Bathsheba looked at Benedict. "You never told me they were matchmaking." "He didn't notice!" said his father before Benedict could answer. "He didn't notice…

— Loretta Chase

“I love to think of those naked epochs Whose statues Phoebus liked to tinge with gold. At that time men and women, lithe and…

— Charles Baudelaire

“Mmm, being irresistibly likeable is such a trial,' she drawled in an impeccable aristocratic whine. 'One is constantly in demand, but one must do…

— Susan Napier

“...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

“My visit to Her Highness was an agreeable surprise for me. Instead of being ushered into the presence of an over-decorated woman, sporting diamond…

— Manu S. Pillai

“It would be easy to be a princess if I were dressed in cloth of gold, but it is a great deal more of…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“There was always a grandeur and a nobility in my megalomania. And also something cheap and loathsome that I could not help.”

— Pat Conroy

“The ladies of Italy, seemingly carefree, wore constructions of iron beneath their silks. It took infinite patience, not just in negotiation, to get them…

— Hilary Mantel

“The costumes of these two ladies seemed to me like the materialisation, snow-white or patterned with colour, of their inner activity, and, like the…

— Marcel Proust

“O my brothers, I dedicate and direct you to a new nobility: you shall become procreators and cultivators and sowers of the future-verily, not…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“She was simple, not being able to adorn herself, but she was unhappy, as one out of her class; for women belong to no…

— Guy de Maupassant