"Prosiness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of a female group are as humorously sketched and hardly less entertaining. "The enthusiastically complimentary person, who forgets you in her own flowery prosiness: as—'I have no need to say to a person of your genius and feeling, and wide range of experience'—and then, being shortsighted, puts up her glass to remember who you are."—"Two sisters" (these were real people known ...
— The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete • John Forster |
