“The Vicomtesse alias Moira Lister - even though she is on the wrong side of 60, is looking like an exquisite, flawless Gainsborough cameo.”
Jani Allan, "The Vicomtesse from Ostrichland", Sunday Times (1983), republished in Face Value by Jani Allan.
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Moira Lister 3
actress 1923–2007Related quotes
“She's no chicken; she's on the wrong side of thirty, if she be a day.”
Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 1
“When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.”
Part I, section 1.
Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie (1847)
“Everything's going to be okay, even though it's all terribly wrong.”
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“I love to indulge it, even though it may be all wrong.”
As quoted when he talked about his piano concerto, op.11.
Context: Here you doubtless observe my tendency to do wrong against my will. As something has involuntarily crept into my head through my eyes, I love to indulge it, even though it may be all wrong.
Source: Self-Help; with Illustrations of Character and Conduct (1859), Ch. XIII : Character — The True Gentleman
Context: Even happiness itself may become habitual. There is a habit of looking at the bright side of things, and also of looking at the dark side. Dr. Johnson has said that the habit of looking at the best side of a thing is worth more to a man than a thousand pounds a year. And we possess the power, to a great extent, of so exercising the will as to direct the thoughts upon objects calculated to yield happiness and improvement rather than their opposites.
