There are various ways of mending a broken heart, but…

“She had been feeling that things were pretty desperate if one found oneself talking about and almost quoting Matthew Arnold to comparative strangers, though…

— Barbara Pym

“He is a brilliant man, said Miss Doggett. She helped him a good deal in his work, I think. Mrs. Bonner says that she…

— Barbara Pym

Life is cruel and we do terrible things to each other.

— Barbara Pym

“One wouldn't believe there could be so many people, and one must love them all.”

— Barbara Pym

“-Hoy no pareces tú misma- dijo él en tono censurador-. Espero que no haya sido el Nuits Saint Georges. -Ya sabes que no estoy…

— Barbara Pym

I stretched out my hand towards the little bookshelf where I kept cookery and devotional books, the most comfortable bedside reading.

— Barbara Pym

“Jane felt that he would write from the depths of a wretchedness that would not necessarily be insincere because its outward signs were so…

— Barbara Pym

“You lose your sense of perspective when you get too close, and the charm goes.”

— Barbara Pym

“I hope you don’t mind tea in mugs,’ she said, coming in with a tray. ‘I told you I was a slut.”

— Barbara Pym

“Let me hasten to add that I am not at all like Jane Eyre, who must have given hope to so many plain women…

— Barbara Pym

“However romantically ill John might look, it seemed that he had nothing worse than an unromantic cold.”

— Barbara Pym

The burden of keeping three people in toilet paper seemed to me rather a heavy one.

— Barbara Pym

“How could she explain to him what her love was like? That although it was a love stronger than death, it wasn’t the kind…

— Barbara Pym

“I have often wondered whether it is really a good thing to be honest by nature and upbringing; certainly it is not a good…

— Barbara Pym

“Oh, yes, men are very simple and obvious in some ways, you know. They generally react in the way one would expect and it…

— Barbara Pym