Marion Chesney Quotes & Sayings

Jealousy was not a green-eyed monster, she thought. It was red in tooth and claw, with glaring, fiery eyes. Her — Marion Chesney

She flew at Harriet and tore the flowers from her hair and scratched her face. Harriet, too dazed to defend herself, reeled back. Agnes flew to Harriet's aid and got her face well and truly slapped for her pains. "Slut!" screamed Cordelia, panting. "Jade! How dare you disobey my orders? You have given Arden such a — Marion Chesney

Miss Manson," said Freddie, "I think I love you. — Marion Chesney

Poverty is the mother of crime. - MARCUS AURELIUS — Marion Chesney

In fact the whole of two-faced society paid only lip service to the ten commandments and committed adultery, stole, and cheated at cards, because, after all, it was only the eleventh commandment that mattered - Thou Shalt Not Get Found Out. — Marion Chesney

may ask me anything." "How long would it take to get a closed stove installed — Marion Chesney

managers, and, after her stay at that terrible old coaching inn, The Boar's Head, she welcomed even the — Marion Chesney

Aubrey Davenport was dressed like a fop, had the manners of a fop, and appeared to have the intelligence of a potato. — Marion Chesney

there is nothing so bad as a reformed anything, be it gambler, drunkard, or lecher. They are aye harder on folks wi' their vices than someone without them would be." Sir — Marion Chesney

Holding her great breast in both hands as if she were holding a pudding, Mrs. Otterley rushed out. — Marion Chesney

Do you know, Carter, that I can actually write my name in the dust on the table? Faith, Mum, that's more than I can do. Sure, there's nothing like education, after all. - Punch — Marion Chesney

you know the sisters were a bunch of Puseyites, all bells and smells — Marion Chesney

He was a small, chubby little man with a perpetual air of sadness about him, making him look like a baby that has dropped its rattle. — Marion Chesney

Like most womanisers, he affected to like women, and yet he despised and hated them all. And — Marion Chesney

The writer harked back to Lord Byron's maiden speech in the House three years before: "I have been in some of the most oppressed provinces in Turkey, but never, under the most despotic of infidel Governments, did I behold such squalid wretchedness as I have seen since my return in the very heart of a Christian country." Mrs. — Marion Chesney

His voice became louder as he — Marion Chesney

Oh, stow your whids, you dreary watering-pot, — Marion Chesney

without touching Annabelle, she managed to urge her along toward the vicarage. — Marion Chesney

endured - how I endured! - for one day I knew her services would no longer be required and I would make my come-out and at least I would have a brief time when I could meet girls of my own age. But Miss Stamp was raised to the rank of companion and still had the schooling — Marion Chesney

Sometimes, when I look back over my life," said Hannah sadly, "I do not think of all the people who harmed me, but quite often of all the kindnesses and wish I could go back and say 'thank you' properly." She — Marion Chesney

Is this the home of Mr. and Mrs. Kendall?" he asked, wondering whether he had arrived by mistake at a brothel that was throwing some sort of a party. "Oh — Marion Chesney