“ Tacking on the kiss at the end made it too romantic, much more like a Victorian or 20th-century story, rather than the early 19th-century story that it really is. ”
- Jane Austen- Copy
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“ I was never a dangerous woman. I'm not the prissy blonde woman that could take your husband away. ”
- Catherine Deneuve- Copy
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“ In Victorian times the purpose of life was to develop a personality once and for all and then stand on it. ”
- Ashley Montagu- Copy
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“ I want to lead the Victorian life, surrounded by exquisite clutter. ”
- Freddie Mercury- Copy
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“ Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. ”
- H. L. Mencken- Copy
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“ Puritanism is the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. ”
- H. L. Mencken- Copy
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“ Puritanism…helps us enjoy our misery while we are inflicting it on others. ”
- Marcel Ophuls- Copy
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“ It may be my rather puritanical upbringing at odds with my inborn laziness that makes me feel guilty at the end of the day, unless I am able to point at some achievement. But this need be no more impressive than cooking a meal or going for a long walk. ”
- Ian Mckellen- Copy
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“ The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art. ”
- Lytton Strachey- Copy
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“ I want to lead the Progressive Conservative Party, a party that will promote true conservative values and principles. I can tell you right now, I am not the merger candidate. I am not interested in institutional marriages with other parties. ”
- Peter MacKay- Copy
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“ No office anywhere on earth is so puritanical, impeccable, elegant, sterile or incorruptible as not to contain the yeast for at least one affair, probably more. You can say it couldn't happen here, but just let a yeast raiser into the place and first thing you know - bread! ”
- Helen Gurley Brown- Copy
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“ There is a hearty Puritanism in the view of human nature which pervades the instrument of 1787. It is the work of men who believed in original sin, and were resolved to leave open for transgressors no door which they could possibly shut. ”
- James Bryce- Copy
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“ The puritanical potentialities of science have never been forecast. If it evolves a body of organized rites, and is established as a religion, hierarchically organized, things more than anything else will be done in the name of "decency." The coarse fumes of tobacco and liquors, the consequent tainting of the breath and staining of white fingers and teeth, which is so offensive to many women, will be the first things attended to. ”
- Wyndham Lewis- Copy
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