"The half-hour before dinner has always been considered as the great ordeal through which the mistress, in giving a dinner-party, will either pass with flying colours, or lose many of her laurels."

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Source : Isabella Beeton, Nicola Humble (2008). “Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management: Abridged Edition”, p.21, Oxford University Press

Isabella Beeton

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“Women have only had the vote for less than 100 years. Before that, we were wives and essentially kind of property. We grew up, and our parents wanted us to get married, so somebody else could look after us. And in the last few decades, it's changed. We can now have families without men. But, unfortunately, the dialogue, the old boys club, the locker room talk, has mysteriously not changed at all.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“I always said that if I could just find a guy who could chop wood and had a nice smile, it wouldn't bother me if he was a thug or an aristocrat, as long as he was a good guy. And I've ended up with an educated thug.”
“Everybody always knows something," said Adam, "even if it's something they don't know they know.”
“Need' now means wanting someone else's money. 'Greed' means wanting to keep your own. 'Compassion' is when a politician arranges the transfer.”
“I never had any real security in my life until I found the false security of stardom.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Was it your strategy to just take as much punishment as you could and then hope he would fall down?”
“I am a proud member of the LGBT community and could never bear the idea that someone could say I was closeted.”
“Shut Up and Play your Guitar.”

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