Bath Quotes
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All my house, But now, steamed
like a bath with her thick breath. A lawyer could not
have been heard; nor scarce Another woman, such a hail of words She has let fall.
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More Bath Quotes
I test my Bath before I sit, And I'm always moved to wonderment That what chills the finger not a bit Is so frigid upon the fundament.
— 1942 Good Intentions,'Samson Agonistes'.
The Malay Peninsula, with the climate of a perpetual Turkish Bath.
— 1906 British Malaya.
Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid being a public menace.
Wilson— 1963 Inside Mr Enderby, pt.2, ch.1.
Allen of Bath procured them the same honours from thence; and for some weeks it rained gold boxes: Chester, Worcester, Norwich, Bedford, Salisbury, Yarmouth, Tewkesbury, Newcastle-on-Tyne, Stirling, and other populous and chief towns following the example. Exeter, with singular affection, sent boxes of heart of oak.
horace walpole— "The sending of boxes to William Pitt in 1757" in Memoirs of the Reign of King George II (London, 1846–47), Vol. II, p. 202.
Margery was more of a religious hysteric than a mystic. But she gives a vibrant account of her life as a woman to whom religion and weeping were as attractive as sex was to the Wife of Bath.
margery kempe— Derek Brewer, in Boris Ford (ed.) Medieval Literature: Chaucer and the Alliterative Tradition (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1982) p. 35.
The cure for a broken heart is simple, my lady. A hot Bath and a good night's sleep.
Margaret George— Mary Queen of Scotland and the Isles (1992)
I’m so glad my window looks east into the sun-rising. It’s so splendid to see the morning coming up over those long hills and glowing through those sharp fir tops. It’s new every morning, and I feel as if I washed my very soul in that Bath of earliest sunshine.
L. M. Montgomery— Said by Anne Shirley in Anne of Green Gables (1908, pg. 374).
MissTwye was soaping her breasts in the Bath When she heard behind her a meaning laugh And to her amazement she discovered A wicked man in the bathroom cupboard.
Gavin Buchanan Ewart— 1939 'Miss Twye'.
Tching prayed on the mountain and wroteon his Bath tub. Day by day make it new cut underbrush, pile the logs keep it growing.
— MAKE IT NEW 1954 The Cantos, no.53.
How circumstantial reality is! Facts are like individual letters, with their spikes and loops and thorns, that make up words: eventually they hurt our eyes, and we long to take a Bath, to rake the lawn, to look at the sea.
John Hoyer Updike— 1989 Self-Consciousness, I.'A Soft Spring Night in Shillington'.
My own room is next the Bath room said Bernard it is decerated dark red as I have somber tastes. The Bath room has got a tip up bason and a hose thing for washing your head.
daisy ashford— Chapter 2 (The Young Visiters (1919))
I've also grown as an actor as I've got older in life. I've learnt how to go to work, immerse myself 100 per cent in the character and, at the end of the day, take it all off and go back, get a nice bubble Bath, have a nice massage and realise that is not my life. And that feels good.
halle berry— Steve Pratt (March 27, 2004) "Blazing a trail with Halle's comet", The Northern Echo, p. 10.
My wife said she'd never heard me singing in the Bath until last week.
norman lamont— Anatole Kaletsky, "Lamont looks on the bright side", The Times, 22 September 1992.
— At a press conference in Washington DC, 21 September 1992. The event "last week" was 'Black Wednesday'.
John Pienaar (BBC reporter): Which do you regret more, singing in the Bath when forced to withdraw from the ERM, or talking prematurely of green shoots last autumn?Norman Lamont: I .. Je ne regrette rien.
norman lamont— Sheila Gunn, "Chancellor warns Newbury against short-term protest", The Times, 24 April 1993.
— At a press conference in support of Julian Davidson, Conservative candidate in the Newbury byelection, on 23 April 1993.
They couldn't, in the National Party, run a Bath and if either the deputy leader or the leader tried to, Sir Robert would run away with the plug.
david lange— Source: Gliding on the Lino: The Wit of David Lange, compiled by David Barber, 1987.
— Referring to the National Party's problems with internal discipline and Robert Muldoon's reluctance to relinquish power.
Henceforth, there is to be no testing oneself against the best, with the possibility, even the likelihood, of failure: instead, one is perpetually to immerse oneself in the tepid Bath of self-esteem, mutual congratulation, and benevolence toward all.
anthony daniels— The Rage of Virginia Woolf (Summer 2002)
O white and midnight sky, O starry Bath, Wash me in thy pure, heavenly crystal flood: Cleanse me, ye stars, from earthly soil and scath Let not one taint remain in spirit or blood!
richard watson gilder— The Celestial Passion, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
That in all capital or criminal prosecutions a man Bath a right to demand the cause and nature of his accusation, to be confronted with the accusers and witnesses, to call for evidence in his favor, and to a speedy trial by an impartial jury of twelve men of his vicinage, without whose unanimous consent he cannot be found guilty; nor can he be compelled to give evidence against himself; that no man be deprived of his liberty, except by the law of the land or the judgment of his peers.
george mason— Article 8 (Virginia Declaration of Rights (1776))
There must be quite a few things a hot Bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.
Sylvia Plath— Ch. 2 (The Bell Jar (1963))
I never feel so much myself as when I'm in a hot Bath.
Sylvia Plath— Ch. 2 (The Bell Jar (1963))
You're welcome to take a Bath. You look like the second week of the garbage strike.
neil simon— Evy, in The Gingerbread Lady (1970); cited from The Collected Plays of Neil Simon (New York: Random House, 1971) vol. 2, p. 76.
My working hours are not that conventional. I often get up about two in the morning and do a painting, and then I'll have a Bath, and then I often feel very hungry around 4am, so I'll go into Soho and have a meal somewhere like Balans. That's what I love about living here - there's always life around me.
stella vine— Williams-Akoto. "My Home: Stella Vine, artist", The Independent, (2005-11-30)On working in London.
If you wish, Faustinus, a Bath of boiling water to be reduced in temperature, a Bath, such as scarcely Julianus could enter, ask the rhetorician Sabinæus to bathe himself in it. He would freeze the warm baths of Nero.
— Martial, Epigrams (c. 80-104 AD), Book III, Epigram 25.
And the rose like a nymph to the Bath addrest, Which unveiled the depth of her glowing breast, Till, fold after fold, to the fainting air, The soul of her beauty and love lay bare.
Percy Bysshe Shelley— Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Sensitive Plant, Part I.
The Lord is so kind that He has spread the river Ganges throughout the universe so that by taking Bath in that holy river everyone can get released from the reactions of sins , which occur at every step.
— Srimad Bhagavatam (3.5.41), in Srimad-Bhagavatam - Prabhupada
An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud Bath for every soul concerned in it.
George Bernard Shaw— George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah.
I love to have a Bath with beautiful, relaxing music on and have no rush to do anything. It's a wonderful indulgence, and it helps me to calm down and stop my mind running overtime.
— Kylie Minogue in: Kathy Lette Kylie Minogue, Woman&Home
I'm going upstairs to take a Bath.
— Who: Stanley Uris
— Source: It
— Note: Character had received a phone call saying that It, which was presumed destroyed, had returned to Derry. He, along with six friends, had vowed to return to defeat the evil if it ever surfaced again. Unable to face It's horror, Uris slit his wrists in the bathtub and wrote the monster's name on the wall in blood.
