Victorian Painted Ladies

Famous quotes containing the words victorian, painted and/or ladies:

    “Conscience was the barmaid of the Victorian soul. Recognizing that human beings were fallible and that their failings, though regrettable, must be humoured, conscience would permit, rather ungraciously perhaps, the indulgence of a number of carefully selected desires.”
    —C.E.M. (Cyril Edwin Mitchinson)

    “Arthur was very small.
    He was all white, like a doll
    that hadn’t been painted yet.”
    —Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)

    “Almost yesterday, those gentle ladies stole
    to their baths in Atlantic City, for the lost
    rites of the first sea of the first salt
    running from a faucet.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)