Icha has contacted me to say that she is suffering from fever and headache so I decided to pick an apt quote for her today. From Sense and S...

My quote for this week is taken from chapter 11 of Emma . "Mr. Elton must now be left to himself. It was no longer in Emma's powe...

A bust statue of the older Tom Lefroy This weekend on June 16, 2013 we have Father's Day once again here in the U.S., so I though...

A painting by R Sharples I have had the subject of "Ladies Fashions" on my mind for a few years now and it hit me that I sh...

I have reached a stage in my life where I am wondering how my life will pan out - I now don't have the naïve security of being young but...

It is indeed a fine wall of books, is it not?   Because I have a granddaughter who loves to read as I did when I was her age, it br...

My apologies for the late instalment this week (well, last weekend for most of the world now). I have internet problem at home, and I have ...

I apologise for being far less organised recently and thank Linda for coming up with a great quote to use today. I believe that it is Mother...

Surprise!  You get two quotes this week.  I stumbled across the following quote by Edward Thompson (1810-1870) an American Bishop of the ...

I have recently started a new job and although the following quote does not match how I feel some of the time, it is definitely how I wish t...

Since my Jane Austen quote of the Week No. 224, I have done some more research on the subject of the slave trade, mainly due to a friend me...

We haven't done Mansfield Park for a while, so I thought of pulling something from MP. I found this one below, and although I wasn'...

I have used this quote before back in August 2008 but I thought it was particularly apt this special weekend of Easter. From chapter 20 of ...

Tom Lefroy (James McAvoy), from DokinaCZ   I recently stumbled across the following article and I simply had to pass it on to you. ...

Have you ever been agitated, vexed out because you sent a rather long letter (read: email, SMS), and yet received a very short reply instead...

I was reading some of Jane Austen's letters to her niece Fanny Knight and the following quote grabbed my attention. It is taken from  le...

  Statue of Wilberforce at Yorkshire This past week I had a "light-bulb" moment after viewing the movie "Amazing Grac...

Thanks to Mariana we have been reminded of a great quote in Pride and Prejudice Chapter 5 when there is a discussion about Mr Bingley's...