Oh she says the inconceivable sorrow of it, those chairs piled up at night when you're sitting in a cafè. The last one left.
El cursillo aconsejaba a la mujer trabajadora que quisiera mantener la compostura repetir dos veces al día las siguientes frases:
Try as i do, i can't recall her surname. Indeed, her very abstractedness and insubstantial personality seemed to say 'forget me'; she seemed to live in parenthesis;...
You don't know what it's like trying to eat enough to live on and at the same time avoid fats and carbohydrates.
The word education comes from the root e from ex, out, and duco, I lead. It means a leading out. To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.
O where shall I find a virtuous woman, for her price is above rubies.
On the first day of his holiday Laurence Manders woke to hear his grandmother’s voice below.‘I’ll have a large wholemeal. I’ve got my grandson stopping for a week, who’s on the BBC. That’s my daughter...
Do you know, Sandy dear, all my ambitions are for you and Rose. You have got insight, perhaps not quite spiritual, but you're a deep one, and Rose has got instinct.' 'Perhaps not quite spiritual' said...
You can lie awake at night and think; the quality of insomnia depends entirely on what you decide to think of. Can you decide to think? - Yes, you can.
The word 'education' comes from the root e from ex, out, and duco, I lead. It means a leading out. To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a...
Pictures inside frames,' said Dave.'That's really all there is to it/ said Tom...;
Nothing infuriates people more than their own lack of spiritual insight.
I see no reason to keep silent about my enjoyment of the sound of my own voice as I work.
He turns a page of his newspaper and folds it conveniently for reading, and reads it without looking at her again, settling further into his seat with the slight sigh of one whose visitor has left and...
The Brodie set did not for a moment doubt that she would prevail. As soon expect Julius Caesar to apply for a job at a crank school as Miss Brodie. She would never resign. If the authorities wanted to...
It's a whydunnit in q-sharp major and it has a message: never talk to the sort of girls that you wouldn't leave lying about in your drawing-room for the servants to pick up.
I have long wanted to know the Greek language, and this scheme will also serve to impress your knowledge on your own minds. John Stuart Mill used to rise at dawn to learn Greek at the age of five, and...
I am putting old heads on your young shoulders,' Miss Brodie had told them at the time.
However, as soon as Mrs. Hogg stepped into her room she disappeared, she simply disappeared. She had no private life whatsoever. God knows where she went in her privacy.
El gigantesco murmullo orgánico de la multitud, en nada semejante a la voz de un ser animado, sino más bien como una catarata o una alteración geológica, se propagaba por los parques y el Mall. Solo l...