The Chianti Flask Quotes

“He [Colonel George Scrutton] always, like the wise man a hard life had made him, allowed trouble to come to him, instead of hastening to meet it, as is a woman's way.”
― Marie Belloc Lowndes, The Chianti Flask

“...his [Mark Scrutton's] was the intelligent and selfless tenderness that is ever seeking to promote the comfort and well-being of the beloved.”
― Marie Belloc Lowndes, The Chianti Flask

“Of course, she [Alice Hayward] was right. She always was right, though now and again she suspected, with a touch of exasperation, that John didn't always think so. But he generally let her have her own way, and that, after all, is what matters to a wife, especially is she loves her husband as much as she, Alice, loved her John.”
― Marie Belloc Lowndes, The Chianti Flask

“For one thing she [Alice Hayward] possessed that passionate love of abstract justice which has become more a woman's than a man's trait, in our modern civilisation.”
― Marie Belloc Lowndes, The Chianti Flask

“...even the most commonplace man knows a great deal more concerning any fellow-man than does even the cleverest, shrewdest woman.”
― Marie Belloc Lowndes, The Chianti Flask