Torment Your Spouse With Violin Music

my favourite Bernini statue isn’t a real statue, but the damaged clay and straw angel that was the model for the bronze statue.

Souls have complexions too: what will suit one will not suit another.

Middlemarch by George Eliot

Olivia Hussey as Juliet Capulet in Romeo and Juliet (1968).

Fencing & Ballet

juliane marie, queen of denmark and norway and princess of brunswick-wolfenbüttel-bevern

vigilius eriksen, 1776

I should be moving back to Oxford today. Fuck coronavirus.

There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.

Keira Knightley as Elizabeth Bennet in Pride & Prejudice (2005)

𝒉𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒚, 𝒊’𝒎 𝒑𝒖𝒕 𝒊𝒏 𝒂𝒘𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏’ 𝒔𝒐 𝒇𝒍𝒂𝒘𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒇𝒓𝒆𝒆

ambrosius benson (lombardy c. 1495-1550)

salvator mundi