"The air you breathe in a picture is not necessarily the same as the air out of doors."

-- Edgar Degas

#Air Quotes #Doors Quotes #Breathe Quotes

“She succumbed to the eternal feminine passion for bargains.”
“The establishment, the newspapers, they try to create something called Scottish literature, but when people are actually going to write, they are not going to necessarily prescribe to that, they'll write what they feel.”
“The monstrosity of sexual intercourse outside marriage is that those who indulge in it are trying to isolate one kind of union (the sexual) from all the other kinds of union which were intended to go along with it and make up the total union.”
“I don't mind not being cool; I wear a cardigan.”
“I am not a moderate. I am a conservative. I'm a fix-it conservative.”
“I did not worry about what a man or woman personally believed, but the nation's official religion should be outwardly practiced by all its citizens. A religion was a political statement. Being a Calvinist, a papist, a Presbyterian, an Anglican labeled a person's philosophy on education, taxes, poor relief, and other secular things. The nation needed an accepted position on such concerns. Hence the fines for not outwardly conforming to the national church.”

Source : Margaret George (2012). “Elizabeth I”, p.318, Pan Macmillan
“Every day two million Americans play tennis and one million of them lose.”
“Another novelty is the tea-party, an extraordinary meal in that, being offered to persons that have already dined well, it supposes neither appetite nor thirst, and has no object but distraction, no basis but delicate enjoyment.”

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