Quotes of Corroding - somelinesforyou

“ For the world was changing, and sweetness was gone, and virtue too. Worry had crept on a corroding world, and what was lost — good manners, ease and beauty? Ladies were not ladies anymore, and you couldn't trust a gentleman's word… Oh, strawberries don't taste as they used to and the thighs of women have lost their clutch! ”

- John Steinbeck

“ Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its after-flavor, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned. ”

- Charlotte Bronte
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