This is the Court of Chancery; which has its decaying houses and its blighted lands in every shire; which has its worn-out lunatic... in every churchyard; which has its ruined suitor, with his slipshod heels and threadbare dress, borrowing and begging through the rounds of every man's acquaintance; which gives to monied might;the means abundantly of wearying out the right; which so exhausts finances, patience, courage, hope; so overthrows the brain and breaks the heart; that there is not an honorable man among its practitioners who does not give--who does not often give--the warning, "Suffer any wrong that can be done you, rather than come here!"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
She [Mae West] supplied much of her own dialogue and delivered it with enough eyeball-rolling suggestiveness to disguise the fact ...that she didn't really look very sexy, she just sounded it. Her style was innuendo con brio. Garbo's sensual appeal was based on the assumption that her personality was a castle with no drawbridge; a successful suitor would have to climb the ivy. With Mae West there was a highway to the front door.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You think that you are Ann's suitor; that you are the pursuer and she the pursued; that it is your part to woo, to persuade, to pr...evail, to overcome. Fool: it is you who are the pursued, the marked down quarry, the destined prey.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In England, I was quite struck to see how forward the girls are made--a child of 10 years old, will chat and keep you company, whi...le her parents are busy or out etc.--with the ease of a woman of 26. But then, how does this education go on?--Not at all: it absolutely stops short.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When once--which every body must be--you are convinced of the wickedness and deceit of men, it is impossible to preserve untainted... your own innocence of heart. Experience will prove the depravity of mankind, and the conviction of it only serves to create distrust, suspicion--caution--and sometimes causelessly.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Look at your [English] ladies of quality--are they not forever parting with their husbands--forfeiting their reputations--and is t...heir life aught but dissipation? In common genteel life, indeed, you may now and then meet with very fine girls--who have politeness, sense and conversation--but these are few--and then look at your trademen's daughters--what are they?--poor creatures indeed! all pertness, imitation and folly.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The young women [in England] are so mortally silly and insipid, that I cannot bear them. Upon my word ... I have scarce met with o...ne worthy being spoke to. Their chat is all on caps--balls--cards--dress--nonsense.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »