A Bachelor Establishment Quotes

“If you are running from yourself, it hardly matters where you go, or even whether you go at all, does it? In the end, there is only one sure escape from oneself.”
― Isabella Barclay, A Bachelor Establishment

“Age has nothing to do with years. I know people – and you do too, I’m sure – who were born middle-aged. Who were old long before their time. Age is a state of mind and if you can only pull yourself from this – this Slough of Despond – into which you have, for some reason, plunged yourself, you, my lord, will be young until the day you die.”
― Isabella Barclay, A Bachelor Establishment

“These, sir, are the marks of a true gentleman, not fine clothes or speeches, but consideration and an unobtrusive kindness, which you, my lord, possess in abundance, like it or not.”
― Isabella Barclay, A Bachelor Establishment