Quotes About Englishwomen

#1. Window-breaking, when Englishmen do it, is regarded as honest expression of political opinion. Window-breaking, when Englishwomen do it, is treated as a crime.

Emmeline Pankhurst

#2. The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous incarnation they do not want to attract attention.

Edith Sitwell

#3. Englishwomen's shoes look as if they had been made by someone who had often heard shoes described, but had never seen any ...

Margaret Halsey

#4. You nurslings of Protestantism astonish me. You unguarded Englishwomen walk calmly amidst red-hot ploughshares and escape burning. I believe, if some of you were thrown into Nebuchadnezzar's hottest furnace you would issue forth untraversed by the smell of fire.

Charlotte Bronte

#5. She also had a French accent, which hundreds of years of animosity had trained nice young Englishwomen to suspect as evil.

Gail Carriger

#6. Like most uneducated Englishwomen, I like reading
I like reading books in the bulk.

Virginia Woolf

#7. Frenchwomen could not dress like Englishwomen without conviction of sin.

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

#8. The Times had announced that seven thousand pounds had been raised to send a party of Englishwomen to the Crimea as nurses. That, Lib had thought, with dread but also a sense of daring, I believe I could do that. She'd lost so much already, she was reckless. All

Emma Donoghue

#9. If these are indeed the spirits of Englishmen and Englishwomen who have passed over into the next world, surely they would know how to form a proper queue?

Julian Barnes

#10. Poor Englishwomen! When it comes to their clothes- well, the French reaction is a shrug, the Italian reaction a spreading of the hands and a lifting of the eyes and the American reaction simply one of amused contempt.

James Laver

#11. Not under foreign skies
Nor under foreign wings protected -
I shared all this with my own people
There, where misfortune had abandoned us.

Anna Akhmatova

#12. That's what's so miraculous about the city: each person's bearing and behavior vanish among these thousand sorts, observations are fleeting, judgements swift, and forgetting inevitable.

Robert Walser

#13. Once I'd reached the point where I could squirrel away more than 30 digits a minute in memory palaces, I still only sporadically used the techniques to memorize the phone numbers of people I actually wanted to call. I found it was just too simple to punch them into my cell phone.

Joshua Foer

#14. It was a lonely life to lead, for I had nothing to think of, having been made such a little while before.

L. Frank Baum

#15. I hope I give girls an opportunity to realize that they can swim and go to school at the same time. It's not to be given up once they get out of high school. They can continue doing it for the rest of their lives.

Debbie Meyer

#16. The philosopher had rescued her. The unknown letter writer had saved her from the triviality of everyday existence.

Jostein Gaarder

#17. You might, from your appearance, be the wife of Lucifer," said Miss Pross, in her breathing. "Nevertheless, you shall not get the better of me. I am an Englishwoman.

Charles Dickens

#18. I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little more, as I grown older.

Catherine Drinker Bowen

#19. The only reason my daughter has not come home is because someone is keeping her." Keeping her.

Karin Slaughter

#20. Wise men have interpreted dreams, and the gods have laughed.

H.P. Lovecraft

#21. Someone had to do something sometime. Every victim was a culprit, every culprit a victim, and somebody had to stand up sometime to try to break the lousy chain of inherited habit that was imperiling them all.

Joseph Heller

#22. In AirAsia, we consider ourselves basically a dream factory. We deliberately decided that we wanted a company where people can pursue their passion, and we wanted to make use of all the talent that we have in-house.

Tony Fernandes

#23. He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts.

Richard Whately

#24. You mean that's your idea of desire, with all those commas?

Michael Palmer

#25. Perhaps most intriguing of all is that it is possible to photograph what is impossible for the human eye to see - cumulative time.

Michael Kenna

#26. People swindle themselves out of Salvation with great regularity.

Anne Rice