Quote#Beauty
I do not want to see that girl again
Quote byJames Kenneth Stephen · 1859–1892
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Lapsus Calami (1891), "Men and Women", I: "In the Backs".
English (original)
I do not want to see that girl again: I did not like her: and I should not mind If she were done away with, killed, or ploughed. She did not seem to serve a useful end: And certainly she was not beautiful.
— James Kenneth Stephen
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