Giving a party is like having a baby: its conception is more fun than its completion; and once you have begun it, it is almost impossible to stop. — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
However long the horror continued, one must not get to the stage of refusing to think about it. To shrink from direct pain was bad enough, but to shrink from vicarious pain was the ultimate cowardice. And whereas to conceal… — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
Things happen too quickly, crisis follows crisis, the soil of our minds is perpetually disturbed. Each of us, to relieve his feelings, broadcasts his… — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
“It was more like a form of claustrophobia -- a dread of exchanging the freedom of her own self-imposed routine for the inescapable burden… — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
“Mrs. Miniver suddenly understood why she was enjoying the forties so much better than she had enjoyed the thirties: it was the difference between… — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
To be put down in this world, and given only eighty years to get to know it in, is like being let loose in… — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
“...[Y]ou cannot successfully navigate the future unless you keep always framed beside it a small clear image of the past.” — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
In childhood the daylight always fails too soon -- except when there are going to be fireworks; — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
I can't abide cats myself, but of course we have to have one in the kitchen to deal with the mice. I insisted on… — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
swans ... always look as though they'd just been reading their own fan-mail. — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
It seemed to her sometimes that the most important thing about marriage was not a home or children or a remedy against sin, but… — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
Physical weather certainly is beyond our control. ... But human weather - the psychological climate of the world - is not beyond our control.… — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
Scots are born exiles, and Scotland the perfect country to be exiled from. Do not imagine that I am running down Scotland. Far from… — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
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