Famous quotes containing the words lynch thrale, hester and/or lynch:
“Johnsons conversation was by much too strong for a person accustomed to obsequiousness and flattery; it was mustard in a young childs mouth.”
—Hester Lynch Thrale (17391821)
“It was almost two years ago, while awaiting the imminent birth of my second child, that I decided to start working part-time. This would have been unthinkable to me when I was younger. At twenty-five I should have worn a big red A on my chest; it would have stood for ambition, an ambition so brazen and burning that it would have reduced Hester Prynnes transgression to pale pink.”
—Anna Quindlen (20th century)
“Johnsons conversation was by much too strong for a person accustomed to obsequiousness and flattery; it was mustard in a young childs mouth.”
—Hester Lynch Thrale (17391821)