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Gabriela Zapolska Quotes

1857–1921 Poland

Maria Gabriela Stefania Korwin-Piotrowska (30 March 1857 – 17 December 1921), known as Gabriela Zapolska, was a Polish novelist, playwright, naturalist writer, feuilletonist, theatre critic and stage actress.

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Each and every suicide must be mad, must have lost her sense of morality, her faith in the omnipresence of God.

Moralność pani Dulskiej (1906)

Every woman is a pianoforte – only one must know how to play her.

Moralność pani Dulskiej (1906)

A woman ought to proceed through life calmly and quietly.

Moralność pani Dulskiej (1906)

A woman does not need to adorn herself underneath for her husband, young sir.

Moralność pani Dulskiej (1906)

Stop daubing yourself with paint, because you look like an old tenement building patched up for the emperor's grand parade.

Moralność pani Dulskiej (1906)

One does not come across accidents in a respectable tenement building.

Moralność pani Dulskiej (1906)

For a woman, there is no place like home.

Moralność pani Dulskiej (1906)

My conscience is clear and I shall not fear the light of day.

Moralność pani Dulskiej (1906)

Oh, what times, what times we have lived to witness! No hay for the flock — no human integrity.

Moralność pani Dulskiej (1906)

I have come to terms with life and I steal away with whatever is most agreeable. That is the pinnacle of wisdom.

Moralność pani Dulskiej (1906)

When did you ever see an honest woman with red hair?

Moralność pani Dulskiej (1906)

Death is the answer to everything.

Moralność pani Dulskiej (1906)

I don’t have any time to think.

Moralność pani Dulskiej (1906)

Because I do not want to commit the crime of giving life to beings who later may be unhappy and curse the moment of their birth.

The reason we have four walls and a ceiling, is so that we can wash our dirty linen in private and no one need know a thing about it.

Moralność pani Dulskiej (1906)

One Judas sells another for ready cash.

Moralność pani Dulskiej (1906)

Modesty is a young girl’s treasure.

Moralność pani Dulskiej (1906)

Wielka afera – zagoi się do wesela.

Moralność pani Dulskiej (1906)

A niech was wszyscy diabli!!!

Moralność pani Dulskiej (1906)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Gabriela Zapolska (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.