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“There are certain phrases potent to make my blood boil -- improper influence! What old woman's cackle is that?"

"Are you a young lady?"

"I am a thousand times better: I am an honest woman, and as such I will be treated.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Shirley

“Refrain to-night;
And that shall lend a kind of easiness
To the next abstinence, the next more easy;
For use almost can change the stamp of nature,
And either master the devil or throw him out
With wondrous potency.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“If one imitates the upright, one becomes upright. If one imitates the crooked, one becomes crooked.”
― Christie Watson, Tiny Sunbirds, Far Away

“We must teach our people to exalt righteousness and uprightness as a national modus operandi”
― Sunday Adelaja

“I had hardly ever seen Great Granny Webster at that time, and yet her feelings interested me. She was little more to me than the silhouette of a formidable old woman dressed in black who appeared occasionally at family gatherings and made us feel that she was taking a dangerous risk with her upright spine when circumstances forced her to bend over and kiss her great-grandchildren.”
― Caroline Blackwood, Great Granny Webster