14 Quotes by Imogen Hermes Gowar

As to her education..." says Angelica."'Tis done," says Mrs Lippard. "Her school could do no more for her.""I learned nothing," growls Sukie."You read every book they had.""If I had known there were so few, I would have read slower.

She is such a conduit of rage, it is a wonder she does not catch alight.

For they apprehend that before them, pulled up to the fullest of her height, stands a true and haughty whore of the first water. And they cannot think what to do.

A man who is pleased to collect up the pins as he strips her is a rare jewel.

I cry out and there is a dull nothing.

Touch me again with your speaking. The hectic crowded feeling of being: I would drink it all in. Brimming with things that swell, and make me flip over on myself: elation and jealousy and spasms of love.

All cats are grey with the candles out.

For class is a type of bubble, a membrane around one, and although one might grow within this membrane, and strain against it, it is impossible to break free from it. And a man of nobility is always such in his soul, however he may fall; and a man of humble sort is always such in his soul, however he may climb.

I am cognisant, as those gentlemen are not, that all pleasures have their cost.