Enlightening Delilah Quotes

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― Marion Chesney, Enlightening Delilah

“Well, I am sorry. I did not expect her to take me seriously.” “A rich, handsome, marriageable man is always taken seriously.”
― Marion Chesney, Enlightening Delilah

“I am afraid the English have always loathed their soldiers except in times of peril,”
― Marion Chesney, Enlightening Delilah

“and felt a little stabbing impulse to kick the squire on his backside as he left the room.”
― Marion Chesney, Enlightening Delilah

“The Egyptian mode, for example, often led the squire to think the Egyptians must have had a very uncomfortable time of it.”
― Marion Chesney, Enlightening Delilah

“Chrysanthemums were a new flower, recently imported for the first time and therefore considered fashionable, but Amy thought they smelled of autumn. Another autumn. Another year nearer the grave.”
― Marion Chesney, Enlightening Delilah

“He would have been very upset had he known that his neighbours all considered Delilah a terrible flirt, a minx, and pitied him accordingly.”
― Marion Chesney, Enlightening Delilah