Obedience is the fruit of faith. – Christina Rossetti
Better by far you should forget and smile that you should remember and be sad. – Christina Rossetti

Obedience is the fruit of faith. – Christina Rossetti
Better by far you should forget and smile that you should remember and be sad. – Christina Rossetti
She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways she covered up her eyes lest they should gaze on vanity, and chose the bitter truth. – Christina Rossetti
I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul. No, give me a ruined complexion and a lost figure and sixteen chins on a farmyard of Crow’s feet and an obvious wig. Then you shall see me coming out strong. – George Bernard Shaw, to Mrs. Patrick Campbell