You can make a sordid thing sound like a brilliant drawing-room comedy. Probably a fear we have of facing up to the real issues. C...ould you say we were guilty of Noel Cowardice?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full o...f dukes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The farmer stands well on the world. Plain in manners as in dress, he would not shine in palaces; he is absolutely unknown and ina...dmissible therein; living or dying, he never shall be heard of in them; yet the drawing-room heroes put down beside him would shrivel in his presence; he solid and unexpressive, they expressed to gold-leaf.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
How can the physique be braced if no fresh breath from the outer world is suffered to permeate the languid, enervating air of the ...drawing-room? How can the grasp of the mind be vigorous, without action? Daughters of inherited wealth, or accumulated labor! the wide door of philanthropy is open peculiarly to you! Your life-work lies beyond your threshold: your wealth has placed you above the sorrowful struggle for daily bread which takes up the whole time of so many of your brothers and sisters. You are the almoners of God. A double accountability is yours.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A few more days, and this essay will follow the Defensio Populi to the dust and silence of the upper shelf.... For a month or two ...it will occupy a few minutes of chat in every drawing-room, and a few columns in every magazine; and it will then ... be withdrawn, to make room for the forthcoming novelties.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... up to this date, I have never been shut up in a separate room, or hedged off with any observances. My study, all the study I h...ave attained to, is the little 2nd drawing room where all the (feminine) life of the house goes on; and I don't think I have ever had two hours undisturbed (except at night, when everybody is in bed) during my whole literary life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Any romantic notions that a woman may entertain regarding the stern sex are apt to be very badly damaged if she meets men outside ...of domestic and social circles, say as fellow collegians, or fellow workers in professional or commercial life. Here drawing-room etiquette does not prevail and the aboriginal man, divested of conventional veneer, stands forth in his true colors as a very fallible, commonplace human being.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »