| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
| |
| |
| NUMBER: | 45066 |
| QUOTATION: | No one need go into alleys to hunt up wretchedness; they can find it in perfection among the rich and fashionable of every land and nation. Oh! if tesselated hearths and satin tapestries could speak, what tales of agony they might tell! If the marble statues that adorn the riches of lordly mansions could open their mouths, how would they outrival all poetry and romance in the incidents they could proclaim! and could the nuptial couch, with its silken hangings, unfold its memories, could we bear to listen to its disclosures? |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Eliza Potter, U.S. “society” hairdresser. A Hairdresser’s Experience in High Life, “Author’s Appeal” [Introduction] (1859). |
| |
| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
|
|
