Quotes and Advice to Daughters in Victorian Times
- Least said soonest mended.
- Eavesdroppers never hear good of themselves.
- A secret is only a secret when you don't tell anyone.
- Protect yourself from other people's bad manners by a conspicuous display of your own good ones.
- If you can't say something nice about someone don't say anything at all.
- Elbows off the table, hands in laps.
- Don't start until your mother is served.
- Eat your greens or you will get warts.
- How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.
- Don't make mountains out of molehills.
- Brush your hair one hundred times before bed.
- Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
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For Lunagirl - Victorian Spring
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Beautiful, love your brilliant colors & the embroidery background! Thanks for sharing your work in my blog challenge! (Hint: You could also enter it in the "Lace & Doilies" challenge at craftingbydesigns.blogspot.com which I sponsoring!)
ResponderExcluirOh this is so beautiful and so detailed of my liking and your daughter advise ha-ha. Eat your greens or you will get warts? Funny.
ResponderExcluirMy Mom used to say. Eat your carrots you won't have to wear glasses. (Wrong.)
Gorgeous work, a real Victorian Time beauty. Thanks for your mail. I tryed some filtters in PSE. There are many of them. Hugs,
ResponderExcluirSoul sister
Such a beautiful Victorian lady. And your advice was most interesting. I had never heard of the one about greens. I heard some pretty odd ones while growing up, though.
ResponderExcluirKarla, This is now, my absolute favorite! Just stunning my dear! And I love those quotes you added! xoxo
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