Brothels Quote by Sylvia Townsend Warner

“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

My parents took me to the Bronte parsonage in England when I was a teenager. I had a fight with my mum, burst into…

— Eleanor Catton

“Her gaze dims as her nostalgia for Palermo overcomes her. Those smells of seaweed dried by the sun, of capers, of ripe figs, she…

— Dacia Maraini

“She stopped and listened to him and somehow his cheerful, friendly little whistle gave her a pleased feeling--even a disagreeable little girl may be…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“And Viola is the idol, the theme of Naples. She is the spoiled sultana of the boards. To spoil her acting may be easy…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

“I don't know why--there are no brick gables,' said Mrs. Prest, 'but this corner has seemed to me before more Dutch than Italian, more…

— Henry James

I'm trying to figure out how someone could live in a brothel for a month and not notice. You must be terribly dull-witted." Tessa…

— Cassandra Clare

The piebald mare paws at the sand; I see her digging out of the corner of my eye and hear her grinding her teeth.…

— Maggie Stiefvater

I don't care very much for literary shrines and hauntsI knew a woman in London who boasted that she had lodgings from the windows…

— Carolyn Wells

A woman, even a prude, is not long at a loss, however dire her plight. She would seen always to have in hand the…

— Honore de Balzac

The Moor has done his work, the Moor may go.

— Friedrich Schiller

She had acquired some of his gypsy ways, some of his nonchalance, his bohemian indiscipline. She had swung with him into the disorders of…

— Anais Nin