Jane Grey Swisshelm

Famous quotes containing the words jane grey swisshelm, grey swisshelm, grey and/or swisshelm:

    In ‘70 he married again, and I having, voluntarily, assumed the legal guilt of breaking my marriage contract, do cheerfully accept the legal penalty—a life of celibacy—bringing no charge against him who was my husband, save that he was not much better than the average man.
    Jane Grey Swisshelm (1815–1884)

    Perhaps you have been busy
    Horse-whipping Sal or Lizzie,
    Stealing some poor man’s baby,
    Selling its mother, maybe.
    —Jane Grey Swisshelm (1815–1884)

    And Space with gaunt grey eyes and her brother Time
    Wheeling and whispering come,
    James Elroy Flecker (1884–1919)

    It was quite an insignificant looking sheet, but no sooner did the American eagle catch sight of it, than he swooned and fell off his perch.
    —Jane Grey Swisshelm (1815–1884)