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“... all ugliness passes, and beauty endures, excepting of the skin.”
Source : Edith Sitwell (Dame), John Lehmann, Derek Parker (1970). “Selected letters”, MacMillan
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“Vocabulary enables us to interpret and to express. If you have a limited vocabulary, you will also have a limited vision and a limited future.”
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“A sure sign of a soul-based workplace is excitement, enthusiasm, real passion; not manufactured passion, but real involvement. And there's very little fear.”
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“If they are ignorant, they are despised, if learned, mocked. In love they are reduced to the status of courtesans. As wives they are treated more as servants than as companions. Men do not love them: they make use of them, they exploit them, and expect, in that way, to make them subject to the law of fidelity.”
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“Lettuce, greens and celery, though much eaten, are worse than cabbage, being equally indigestible without the addition of condiments. Besides, the lettuce contains narcotic properties. It is said of Galen, that he used to obtain from a head of it, eaten on going to bed, all the good effects of a dose of opium.”
Source : William Andrus Alcott (1838). “The Young House-keeper: Or, Thoughts on Food and Cookery”, p.191
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“It was more dangerous not to go; I was running the risk of becoming trapped in my own fantasies. So I was doing the right thing by going. She would behave normally, I would behave normally, and everything would be normal again.”
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“When you start to get influenced by your family, you feel love for someone else and your heart starts to move away from yourself.”
Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“My wife, who, poor wretch, is troubled with her lonely life.”
Source : 'Diary' 19 December 1662
