129 Quotes About Victorian

Don't let his gentlemanly airs fool you, Miss Porter. Alex Langley is one of the toughest men I ever met.

How many girls’ schools have expelled you?''This is number six,' Emma volunteered.' Papa, is Maria going to Paris? Is she?''No, Emma, nor anywhere else on the Continent. But she is going _somewhere_, to be sure.

He started up, and wrung my hand in quite an ecstasy of gratitude. How I do hate people who can only express their feelings by hurting other people's hand.

An unhappy woman with access to weed killer had to be watched carefully.

I've come back for you, my love, my life. Let me look at you, keep you, never let go of you.

Like herbs in a pestle, life steadily ground out the essence of those who did not have access to comforts.

I do appreciate, Ernestine, that your first instinct is not to prevent me from doing something scandalous, but to help me get away with it.

I should have looked into my own heart, and found this new growth springing up there, and plucked it out while it was young.

Some ghosts are so quiet you would hardly know they were there.