Mistress Nell Gwyn Quotes

“He who don’t like me greasy shan’t have me nice.”
― Marjorie Bowen, Mistress Nell Gwyn

“Yet this little creature, of so mean an origin that she could not write her name, shone with an amiable lustre amid the corruptions and profanities of a Court, the scandal of her position and the enervation of luxury and pleasure — and this lustre she added to her generosity, her kindness and her womanly tenderness.”
― Marjorie Bowen, Mistress Nell Gwyn

“I doubt not that some shall think this woman too slight a thing to be written of and set among the remembrances of great matters, but me-seemth the chance worthy to be remembered — for where, the King took displeasure she would mitigate and appease his mind; where men were out of favour she would bring them into his grace; for many that had highly of ended she would bring pardon; of great forfeitures she got men remission; and, finally, in many weighty suits she stood more in great stead.”
― Marjorie Bowen, Mistress Nell Gwyn

“mouth and the weight of dust heavy in his hand.”
― Marjorie Bowen, Mistress Nell Gwyn