Source: Volkhavaar (1977), Chapter 11 (p. 100)
“We're like the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, then eat the little brats alive.”
Variant: We’re the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, but we eat the little bastards alive.
Source: Ender's Game
“It is only a plain tale of plain people told in the plain dialect of a plain old woman.”
Hall, Eliza Calvert (1910). "Introduction". Sally Ann's Experience. Illustrated by G. Patrick Nelson, Theodore Brown Hapgood. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company. pp. v - xii. http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=ugAZAAAAYAAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA50&dq=aunt+jane+of+kentucky&ots=Oaz4lMOoks&sig=_ET0k7b6BWOlRwCqW5Qja3baNvg#v=onepage&q=Introduction&f=false.
Lida Obenchain's description of her then famous story Sally Ann's Experience.
“Musicians are seldom unemotional; a woman who could sing like that must know how to love indeed.”
Les musiciennes sont presque toujours amoureuses. Celle qui chantait ainsi devait savoir bien aimer.
The Wild Ass’s Skin (1831), Part II: A Woman Without a Heart
“Words one can hear, the face is plain to see:
The inmost heart one seldom can discern.”
Ben s'ode il ragionar, si vede il volto,
Ma dentro il petto mal giudicar possi.
Canto V, stanza 8 (tr. B. Reynolds)
Orlando Furioso (1532)
“A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.”
No. 475 (4 September 1712).
The Spectator (1711–1714)
“Remember, it's as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.”
Source: The History of Pendennis (1848-1850), Ch. 28.
