Habits Quote by Rachel Carter

“fellow almost damn'd in a fair wife; That never set a squadron in the field, Nor the division of a battle knows More than…

— William Shakespeare

“By this time he had discovered that his neighbour was not very conversible; But whether her silence proceeded from pride, discretion, timidity, or idiotism,…

— Matthew Gregory Lewis

“Obviously, a wife must obey her husband in all important matters. If he continues believing his admonitions are his own ideas, so much the…

— Elisa Braden

“Because her general taste appalled him, it annoyed him that he himself constituted one of her favorites. It was an anomaly which he had…

— Philip K. Dick

“She found herself suddenly surrounded by a host of assumptions. It was assumed that she trembled for joy in his presence, languished in his…

— Vita Sackville-West

“The very decided manner with which he spoke, and strove to impress his wife with the evil consequences of giving me instruction, served to…

— Frederick Douglass

“He had grown accustomed to his wife by this time, and regarded silence on his own part as a great preservative against long inconsequential…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

“She liked him too much to marry him, that was the point; something told her that she should not be satisfied, and to inflict…

— Henry James

“Though he sought simplicity, he dread dulness. Dimly conscious that he was dull himself, he craved the stimulus of a quicker mind; yet he…

— Edith Wharton

“The stupidity with which he was favoured by nature must guard his courtship from any charm that could make a woman wish for its…

— Jane Austen

“but yet it appeared to her so natural, so inevitable to strive against an inclination of that sort unrequited, that she could not comprehend…

— Jane Austen

“He...preferred always the more to the less remote, what, seeming exceptional, was an instance of law more refined...”

— Walter Pater