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“A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs and they play piano.”

“I am a product of endless books. My father bought all the books he read and never got rid of any of them. There were books in the study, books in the drawing room, books in the cloakroom, books (two deep) in the great bookcase on the landing, books in a bedroom, books piled as high as my shoulder in the cistern attic...In the seemingly endless rainy afternoons I took volume after volume from the shelves. I had always the same certainty of finding a book that was new to me as a man who walks into a field has of finding a new blade of grass.”

“Truth is a rough, honest, helter-skelter terrier that none like to see brought into their drawing rooms.”

Rooms Honest Truth Is Drawing Rough Terriers

Book:Chandos: A Novel

Source: Chandos: A Novel

“Comedy is a game played to throw reflections upon social life, and it deals with human nature in the drawing-room of civilized men and women, where we have no dust of the struggling outer world, no mire, no violent crashes, to make the correctness of the representation convincing.”

Source: The Complete Works of George Meredith

“I could not but smile to think in what out-of-the-way corners genius produces her bantlings! And the Muses, those capricious dames, who, forsooth, so often refuse to visit palaces, and deny a single smile to votaries in splendid studies, and gilded drawing-rooms--what holes and burrows will they frequent to lavish their favors on some ragged disciple!”

Thinking Way Rooms Study Produce Genius Refuse Corners Deny Drawing Favors Holes Muse Disciple Palaces Splendid Capricious Dames Ragged Gilded

Book:The Complete Tales of Washington Irving

Source: The Complete Tales of Washington Irving

“Low comedies are written for the drawing-room, the kitchen and the stable, and if you cut out the kitchen and the stable the drawing-room can't support the play by itself.”

Ifs Play Rooms Support Comedy Cutting Written Lows Drawing Kitchen Stable

Book:Mark Twain’s Letters & Speeches (Annotated Edition)

Source: Mark Twain’s Letters & Speeches (Annotated Edition)

“No man is quite so much a hero in the dark as in broad daylight, in solitude as in society, in the gloom of the churchyard as in the blaze of the drawing-room. The season and the place may be such as to oppress the stoutest heart with a mysterious awe, which, if not fear, is near akin to it.”

Ifs Men Heart May Dark Rooms Hero Solitude Seasons Drawing Mysterious Awe Broads Gloom Daylight

Book:BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL MISCELLANIES

Source: BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL MISCELLANIES

“We have entered a new and different world-richly interconnected and radically multicentric-in which the traditional holders of power have to move over and make room for new stakeholders, new players, and new leaders of many kinds. Nobody in Charge, drawing on the learnings of a wise and widely experienced public executive, offers some priceless insights into how things have changed, where they are now, and where we may be going next in this bewildering terrain.”

“Disorder in a drawing-room is vulgar; in an antiquary's study, not; the black battle-stain on a soldier's face is not vulgar, but the dirty face of a housemaid is.”

Faces Black Rooms Study Battle Soldier Drawing Dirty Disorder Vulgar Stains Housemaids

Book:Modern Painters: pt. 6. Of leaf beauty. pt. 7. Of cloud beauty. pt. 8-9. Of ideas of relation: Of invention formal. Of invention spiritual

Source: Modern Painters: pt. 6. Of leaf beauty. pt. 7. Of cloud beauty. pt. 8-9. Of ideas of relation: Of invention formal. Of invention spiritual

“Many a woman will pass for elegant in a ballroom, or even at a court drawing room, whose want of true breeding would become evident in a chosen company.”

Want Rooms Company Court Drawing Chosen Evident Elegant Elegance Breeding Ballroom

Book:Modern Society

Source: Modern Society

“Visitors should conform as much as possible to the habits and customs of the house. They should be moderate in their demands for personal attendance. They should not carry their moods into the drawing-room or to the table, and, whether they are bored or not, should be ready to contribute as much as in their power to an atmosphere of pleasure. If the above involves too much self-sacrifice, then an invitation to visit should by no means be accepted.”

“The issue of comparative performances can be regarded as settled to-day, both scientifically and practically. Though differences in attitudes between men and women still form a favorite topic of drawing-room conversation ... women's abilities are no longer seriously in doubt. These discussions rather seem to be a kind of rearguard action carried on after the main battle has been decided.”

Source: Women's Two Roles: Home and Work

“Ambas and Bobia Islands are perfect gems of beauty. Mondoleh I cannot say I admire. It always looks to me exactly like one of those flower-stands full of ferns and plants - the sort you come across in drawing rooms at home, with wire-work legs. I do not mean that Mondoleh has wire-work legs under water, but it looks as if it might have.”

Ifs Looks Mean Home Might Water Perfect Rooms Flower Plant Legs Drawing Admire Islands Wire Gems Ferns

Author:Mary Kingsley

“An animatic is a process where every voice and every sound effect is added to rough animated drawings and it lasts exactly as long as the final movie. So you actually get to go into a screening room with the rest of the cast and you get to see it all at the same time.”

Long Lasts Process Sound Voice Rooms Effects Finals Casts Drawing Rough Animated Screening Sound Effects

Author:Tom Hanks

“There's always room out there for the hand-drawn image. I personally like the imperfection of hand drawing as opposed to the slick look of computer animation. But you can do good stuff either way. The Pixar movies are amazing in what they do, but there's plenty of independent animators who are doing really amazing things as well.”

Way Wells Looks Hands Stuff Can Do Rooms Computer Independent Drawing Plenty Imperfection Animation Amazing Things Really Amazing Slick Animator Pixar Computer Animation

Author:Matt Groening

“It is with blows dealt by public contempt that a husband kills his wife in the nineteenth century; it is by shutting the doors ofall the drawing-rooms in her face.”

Faces Rooms Wife Doors Century Husband Blow Revenge Drawing Contempt Nineteenth Century

Book:The Red and the Black

Source: The Red and the Black

“In the drawing room [of the Queen's palace] hung a Venus and Cupid by Michaelangelo, in which, instead of a bit of drapery, the painter has placed Cupid's foot between Venus's thighs. Queen Caroline asked General Guise, an old connoisseur, if it was not a very fine piece? He replied "Madam, the painter was a fool, for he has placed the foot where the hand should be.”

Ifs Should Hands Bits Rooms Pieces Feet Fine Fool Drawing Painter Queens Hung Palaces Thighs Venus Guise Cupid Obscenity Connoisseur

Author:Horace Walpole

“... up to this date, I have never been shut up in a separate room, or hedged off with any observances. My study, all the study I have attained to, is the little 2nd drawing room where all the (feminine) life of the house goes on; and I don't think I have ever had two hours undisturbed (except at night, when everybody is in bed) during my whole literary life.”

Thinking Littles Two Whole Night House Hours Rooms Study Goes On Bed Drawing Feminine Shut Up Observance

Book:The Autobiography of Margaret Oliphant

Source: The Autobiography of Margaret Oliphant

“I'm very artistic - I feel like ever since I was born I've been drawing. I actually have a picture in my room that I painted, and people are always like "Where did you buy that?" It's cool that people are impressed by it.”

People Feels Born Rooms Drawing Artistic Impressed

Author:Maddie Ziegler

“But after all, what have we to do with taverns? Real menace belongs to the drawing-room.”

Real Rooms Class Society Drawing Menace Real Men Taverns

Book:A Room with a View

Source: A Room with a View

“It is not in our drawing-rooms that we should look to judge of the intrinsic worth of any style of dress. The street-car is a truer crucible of its inherent value.”

Should Looks Values Rooms Streets Fashion Car Style Judging Dresses Drawing Inherent Crucible

Author:Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

“When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes.”

Feels Science Rooms Mistake Company Scientist Drawing Dukes Shabby

Author:W. H. Auden

“EAT, v.i. To perform successively (and successfully) the functions of mastication, humectation, and deglutition. 'I was in the drawing-room, enjoying my dinner,' said Brillat-Savarin, beginning an anecdote. 'What!' interrupted Rochebriant; 'eating dinner in a drawing-room?' 'I must beg you to observe, monsieur,' explained the great gastronome, 'that I did not say I was eating my dinner, but enjoying it. I had dined an hour before.'”

Said Enjoy Hours Rooms Food Eating Function Cooking Dinner Drawing Culinary Interrupted Anecdotes Eating Dinner

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)

“It takes that je ne sais quoi which we call sophistication for a woman to be magnificent in a drawing-room when her faculties have departed but she herself has not yet gone home.”

Home Rooms Gone Alcohol Drawing Faculty Magnificent Alcoholism Sophistication Departed

Author:James Thurber

“I had always been kind of obsessed with making a home of my own and was always drawing rooms that I wanted to live in, down to pictures on the wall and the faces that would be in the photographs.”

Kind Home Would Be Wanted Faces My Own Rooms Wall Photograph Drawing Obsessed Couches

Author:Michelle Williams

“Yesterday, happiness came in suddenly, as it used to, and remained for a moment in the great, dark, silent drawing room.”

Moments Happiness Used Dark Rooms Silent Drawing Yesterday

Book:Diary, 1928-1957

Source: Diary, 1928-1957

“I'm English and I'm used to coming from a world of period dramas, where there's a very polite restraint to everything. Everybody's sort of sitting in drawing rooms.”

World Used Rooms Periods Drama Sitting Drawing Restraint Polite

Author:Clive Owen

“I used to come from the village with all that dirt and coarse ugliness like a pain within me, and the simpering pictures in the drawing-room seemed to me like a wicked attempt to find delight in what is false, while we don't mind how hard the truth is for the neighbors outside our walls. I think we have no right to come forward and urge wider changes for good, until we have tried to alter the evils which lie under our own hands.”

Thinking Mind Hard Hands Pain Used Lying Evil Rooms Wall Truth Is Delight Neighbor Drawing Wicked Urges Village Dirt Ugliness Coarse

Book:Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

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