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Do you think I will suffer myself to be baffled?

~ Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Mary Elizabeth Braddon Justice Knowledge Robert Audley Truth Wisdom

. . . and he knew that our dreams are none the less terrible to lose, because they have never been the realities for which we have mistaken them.

~ Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Mary Elizabeth Braddon Dream Dreams

Surely a pretty woman never looks prettier than when making tea.

~ Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Mary Elizabeth Braddon Domesticity Prettiness Tea Victorian Society Women

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-servant. To call them the weaker sex is to utter a hideous mockery. They are the stronger sex, the nosier, the more persevering, the most self-assertive sex.

~ Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Mary Elizabeth Braddon Feminism Women

. . . when the horror of his grief was new to him, and every object in life, however trifling or however important, seem saturated with his one great sorrow.

~ Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Mary Elizabeth Braddon Grief Sad Sorrow

And thus they form a perfect group; he walks back two or three paces, selects his point of sight, and begins to sketch a hurried outline. He has finished it before they move; he hears their voices, though he cannot hear their words, and wonders what they can be talking of. Presently he walks on, and joins them.'You have a corpse there, my friends?' he says. 'Yes; a corpse washed ashore an hour ago.''Drowned?' 'Yes, drowned; - a young girl, very handsome.' 'Suicides are always handsome,' he says; and then he stands for a little while idly smoking and meditating, looking at the sharp outline of the corpse and the stiff folds of the rough canvas covering.Life is such a golden holiday to him young, ambitious, clever - that it seems as though sorrow and death could have no part in his destiny. (The Cold Embrace)

~ Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Mary Elizabeth Braddon Suicide

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

Mary Elizabeth Braddon Ataraxy Individuality Reclusiveness Self Containment Self Reliance Self Sufficiency Silence Solitude

That he will haunt the footsteps of his enemy after death is the one revenge which a dying man can promise himself; and if men had power thus to avenge themselves the earth would be peopled with phantoms. (Eveline's Visitant)

~ Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Mary Elizabeth Braddon Curse Haunt Oath Revenge Vengeance
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