Backstairs Quotes & Sayings

Only to be sent tealess to bed seemed infinite mercy to him. Officially tealess, that is; for, as was usual after such escapades, a sympathetic housemaid, coming delicately by backstairs, stayed him with chunks of cold pudding and condolence, till his small skin was tight as any drum. — Kenneth Grahame

It's not broken
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"It is now." What? Had it not been gentlemanly to tear up her motor? — Cynthia Eden

Functional exercise is not defined by what it looks like, it's defined by what it produces — Brett Jones

The basic religious idea in all patriarchal religions is the negation of the sexual needs. Only in very primitive religions were religiosity and sexuality identical. When social organization passed from matriarchy to patriarchy and class society, the unity of religious and sexual cult underwent a split; the religious cult became the antithesis of the sexual. With that, the cult of sexuality went out of existence. It was replaced by the brothel, pornography and backstairs-sexuality. It goes without saying that when sexual experiences ceased to be one with the religious cults, when, instead, they became antithetical to them, religious excitation assumed a new function: that of being a substitute for the lost sexual pleasure, now no longer affirmed by society. Only this contradiction inherent in religious excitation makes the strength and the tenacity of the religions understandable: the contradiction of its being at one and the same time antisexual and a substitute for sexuality. — Wilhelm Reich

You're never too old - or too young
to start practicing yoga! — Kathryn E. Livingston

I was just trying to be a friend,' I said. 'But you weren't, Charlie. At those times, you weren't being his friend at all. Because you weren't honest with him. — Stephen Chbosky

Memoirs are the backstairs of history. — George Meredith

I'll tell you one thing. I've never heard a director saying that the dailies suck. — Kevin Spacey

All of the musicians when I was young used to always say you had to tell a story when you're a musician. — Dave Holland

One year's poor form remains a blip but if it happens next year, you can say it's a trend. — Gary Neville

I've always been a religious person, and I try to think that every disappointment might just be a blessing in disguise. — Jermain Defoe

Edward Progers was his Majesty's Page of the Backstairs. He handled private money transactions, secret correspondence, and served in an ex-officio capacity as the King's pimp. It was a position of no mean prestige, and of considerable activity. — Kathleen Winsor

Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture; when misfortune comes - A wet sponge at one blow has blurred the painting. — Aeschylus