“I mean it, it’s another gap in your education. Until you can learn to understand her, you’ll get nowhere as a detective. She’s everybody’s conscience, Bob—the universal maiden aunt, cousin or sister. Humanity’s backbone. Throughout history, she’s gone to the stake for you again and again; not with any sense of heroism, but as a matter of principle and because it would never occur to her to do anything else.” SacrificeHeroConscienceHeroismWomanhoodHeroineBritish Womanhood Book:Picture Miss Seeton Source: Picture Miss Seeton
“Knowing themselves to be faultless, they make it their mission to detect the myriad faults in others, against which they wage incessant tongue.” CriticalGossipMaliciousGossipsSuperciliousHypercriticalCarping Book:Witch Miss Seeton Source: Witch Miss Seeton
“When somebody’s too smooth like he is, then somebody else is going to get the rough of it I always say.” SmoothOilySmarmy Book:Picture Miss Seeton Source: Picture Miss Seeton