The Darcys: New Pleasures
Linda Berdoll
Top 10 Best Quotes
“You cannot always have what you want. Sometimes you get what you need.”
“Once an excuse has been deployed, brutal honesty is no longer an option.”
“What is that admonition about not attempting to teach a pig to sing? It wastes your time and annoys the pig.”
“What alteration was ever fot the better? Change meant loss.”
“There is no hint too broad for a woman of little tact.”
“Sagacity did not magically arrive with age. As his family grew, so did his affections. The deeper he loved, the more easily he was injured. His heart had not become reinforced. It had softened--and ripened. It was a larger target and far more easily rent.”
“Pride is a curious thing--- a paradox, really. It makes great fools of some men and saves the honour of others.”
“One must meet in the middle of the village green for all to attest to one's lack of guile or conceal it absolutely.”
“It was said that a man does not look behind a door unless he has once stood there.”
“It is accepted that Father Time is, as subscribed, a Man, if not of male gender, time certainly is no kind friend to women.”
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