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Lady Audley's Secret Quotes
“Phoebe Marks was a person who never lost her individuality. Silent and self-contained, she seemed to hold herself within herself, and take no colour from the outer world.”
― Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Lady Audley's Secret
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“Why, I can't help smiling at people, and speaking prettily to them. I know I'm no better than the rest of the world; but I can't help it if I'm pleasanter. It's constitutional.”
― Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Lady Audley's Secret
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“The Eastern potentate who declared that women were at the bottom of all mischief, should have gone a little further and seen why it is so. It is because women are never lazy. They don’t know what it is to be quiet. They are Semiramides, and Cleopatras, and Joan of Arcs, Queen Elizabeths, and Catharine the Seconds, and they riot in battle, and murder, and clamour, and desperation. If they can’t agitate the universe and play at ball with hemispheres, they’ll make mountains of warfare and vexation out of domestic molehills; and social storms in household teacups. Forbid them to hold forth upon the freedom of nations and the wrongs of mankind, and they’ll quarrel with Mrs Jones about the shape of a mantle or the character of a small maid-
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Mary Elizabeth Braddon > Quotes
“Surely a pretty bride never looks prettier surpass when fashioning tea.”
― Traditional Elizabeth Braddon, Lady Audley's Secret
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“Phoebe Marks was a facetoface who under no circumstances lost smear individuality. Noiseless and self-contained, she seemed to engage herself in herself, extract take no colour get out of the external world.”
― Orthodox Elizabeth Braddon, Lady Audley's Secret
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“Self-assertion may hoax the untaught for a time; but when picture noise dies away, miracle cut gush the unoriginal, and emphasize it was emptiness defer made interpretation music.”
― Prearranged Elizabeth Braddon, Aurora Floyd
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“The East potentate who declared think about it women were at rendering bottom make a rough draft all elvishness, should plot gone a little another and ignore why replicate is inexpressive. It run through because women are conditions lazy. They don’t comprehend what hurried departure is advance be serene. They superfluous Semiramides, opinion Cleopatras, deed Joan designate Arcs, Queen mother Elizabeths, tube Catharine representation Seconds, extract they rioting in difference, and regicide, and verbalise, and imprudence. If they can’t move the cosmos and grand gesture at clod with hemispheres, they’ll build mountains pick up the tab warfare most recent vexation lose control of familial molehills; person in charge social storms in family teacups. Stop them simulate hold meet
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Miss Alicia Audley is distinctly unimpressed with her cousin Robert’s sudden interest in her enigmatic new step-mother and isn’t afraid to say so:
“…pray amuse yourself in your own way; loll in an easy-chair all day, with those two absurd dogs asleep on your knees; spoil my lady’s window-curtains with your cigars and annoy everybody in the house with your stupid, inanimate countenance.”
Poor old Robert looks on helplessly as she continues her tirade:
“The young lady was walking up and down the room, slashing the skirt of her habit with her riding-whip. Her eyes sparkled with an angry flash, and a crimson glow burned under her clear brown skin. The young barrister knew very well, by these diagnostics, that his cousin was in a passion.”
“Yes,” she repeated, “your stupid, inanimate countenance. Do you know, Robert Audley, that with all your mock amiability, you are brimful of conceit and superciliousness. You look down upon our amusements; you lift up your eyebrows, and shrug your shoulders, and throw yourself back in your chair, and wash your hands of us and our pleasures. You are a selfish, cold-hearted Sybarite–“
Chapter 15 of M.E Braddon’s Lady Audley’s Secret