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 I tried to talk to my father about the kind of work I might do after college, he said, "You know, Charlotte, I've been giving... a lot of thought to that, and it seems to me that the world really needs good, competent secretaries. Your English degree will help you." He said this with perfect seriousness. I was an A student at Bryn Mawr ...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Last night, party at Lansdowne-House. Tonight, party at Lady Charlotte Greville's--deplorable waste of time, and something of temp...er. Nothing imparted--nothing acquired--talking without ideas--if any thing like thought in my mind, it was not on the subjects on which we were gabbling. Heigho!--and in this way half London pass what is called life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Werther had a love for Charlotte Such as words could never utter;... Would you know how first he met her? She was cutting bread and butter.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other, or ...ever so similar before-hand, it does not advance their felicity in the least. They always continue to grow sufficiently unlike afterwards to have their share of vexation; and it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Without thinking highly either of men or of matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only honourable provision f...or well-educated young women of small for tune, and however uncertain of giving happiness, must be their pleasantest preservative from want.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
An isolated outbreak of virginity ... is a rash on the face of society. It arouses only pity from the married, and embarrassment f...rom the single.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourself, as a reasonable being ough...t, you seek only to fasten your feebleness on some other person's strength.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But this I know; the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master--something that at tim...es strangely wills and works for itself.... If the result be attractive, the World will praise you, who little deserve praise; if it be repulsive, the same World will blame you, who almost as little deserve blame.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its after- flavo...ur, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »