"Do you always read in the original French?"
"Yes, translations are so indecent."

From Life Magazine, 1922.

An illustration from an 1895 issue of The Idler magazine.

An illustration from a 1903 issue of Life magazine.

An illustration from a 1906 issue of Wide World magazine.  The caption reads: "She remained standing mute as a statue, pointing with her finger towards me."

"A rip in the lining."  A detail of a comic strip from Life, 1920.

An illustration from an 1895 issue of The Idler magazine.  The caption reads: "Swear that for fourteen days you will drink nothing but cocoa."

We all know that the opera isn't over until the fat lady sings, but did you know that in Scotland, the bagpipes aren't over until the corgi cries?  Proof comes from Life Magazine, 1917.

I dreamed of a ten-cent emotion in a fifty-dollar frame.

"Always remember that everyone moves at their own pace."
—Christopher Greco, That's My Opinion, Period! (2011)

An illustration from a 1922 issue of Scribner's magazine.  The caption reads: "The Ghost Trees"

Cups and balls: an illustration from a 1901 issue of The Idler magazine.

"A message from the dead."  A detail of a comic strip from Life, 1920.

An illustration from a 1918 issue of Life magazine.

Here's a precursor to Ronette Pulaski of Twin Peaks.  (Fans of the series will recognize the scene in question.)  The illustration appears about a century earlier, in Henley I. Arden's Elizabeth or Cloud and Sunshine (1891).

An illustration from a 1908 issue of Wide World magazine.  The caption reads: "They saw the towering rock, in obedience to the white man's order, rise high into the air."

"Lamia":  an illustration from a 1900 issue of The Idler magazine and a precursor to the spooky portraits hanging in Disneyland's Haunted Mansion.