Of all things in life, Mrs. Lee held this kind of court-service in contempt, for she was something more than republican--a little ...communistic at heart, and her only serious complaint of the President and his wife was that they undertook to have a court and to ape monarchy. She had no notion of admitting social superiority in any one, President or Prince, and to be suddenly converted into a lady-in-waiting to a small German Grand-Duchess, was a terrible blow.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I would say here something that was heard from an ecclesiastic of the most eminent degree; "That the intention of the Holy Ghost i...s to teach us how one goes to heaven, not how the heaven goes."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
God grant we may not have a European war thrust upon us, and for such a stupid reason too, no I don't mean stupid, but to have to ...go to war on account of tiresome Servia beggars belief.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is a sort of veteran women of condition, who, having lived always in the grand mode, and having possibly had some gallantrie...s, together with the experience of five and twenty or thirty years, form a young fellow better than all the rules that can be given him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repay...s with grand triumphs.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When you take a light perspective, it's easier to step back and relax when your child doesn't walk until fifteen months, . . . is ...not interested in playing ball, wants to be a cheerleader, doesn't want to be a cheerleader, has clothes strewn in the bedroom, has difficulty making friends, hates piano lessons, is awkward and shy, reads books while you are driving through the Grand Canyon, gets caught shoplifting, flunks Spanish, has orange and purple hair, or is lesbian or gay.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What do you do in the Grand Hotel? Eat, sleep, loaf around, flirt a little, dance a little. A hundred doors leading to one hall. N...o one knows anything about the person next to them. And when you leave, someone occupies your room, lies in your bed. That's the end.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »