Quote#Wisdom
Ruins and copious refreshment ware associated in Mr. Gilbert’s mind;…
Quote byMary Elizabeth Braddon · 1835–1915
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Doctor's Wife (1864), Ch. 6.
English (original)
Ruins and copious refreshment ware associated in Mr. Gilbert’s mind; and, indeed, there does seem to be a natural union between ivied walls and lobster-salad, crumbling turrets and cold chicken; just as the domes of Greenwich Hospital, the hilly park beyond, and the rippling water in the foreground, must be for ever and ever associated with floundered souchy and devilled whitebait.
— Mary Elizabeth Braddon
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