Scandal is what one half of the world takes pleasure inventing, and the other half in believing. – Paul Chatfield
Pessimists—Moral squinters, who, being incapable of a straightforward view, imagine that penetration is evinced by universal suspicion and mistrust. – Paul Chatfield
Jealousy—Tormenting yourself, for fear you should be tormented by another. – Paul Chatfield
Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Whos sorry for a gnat or girl? – Elizabeth Barrett Browning