Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English writer Daisy Ashford.
Last updated on November 7, 2024.
Margaret Mary Julia Devlin, known as Daisy Ashford, was an English writer who is most famous for writing The Young Visiters, a novella concerning the upper class society of late 19th century England, when she was just nine years old. The novella was published in 1919, preserving her juvenile spelling and punctuation. She wrote the title as "Viseters" in her manuscript, but it was published as "Visiters".
My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind.
Her name was called Lady Helena Herring and her age was 25 and she mated well with the earl.
Bernard always had a few prayers in the hall and some whiskey afterwards as he was rather pious.
You look rather rash my dear your colors don't quite match your face.
My life will be sour grapes and ashes without you.
I am partial to ladies if they are nice. I suppose it is my nature. I am not quite a gentleman but you would hardly notice it.
I am very fond of fresh air and royalties.
We must go for a day in the country and when surrounded by the gay twittering of the birds and the smell of the cows I will lay my suit at her feet and he waved his arm wildly at the gay thought.