To be put down in this world, and given only eighty years to get to know it in, is like being let… — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
Not that she didn't enjoy the holidays: but she always felt-and it was, perhaps, the measure of her peculiar happiness-a little relieved… — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
It oughtn't to need a war to make us talk to each other in buses, and invent our own amusements in the… — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
“...[T]he mechanics of life should never be allowed to interfere with living.” — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
Constructive destruction is one of the most delightful employments in the world, and in civilized life the opportunities for it are only… — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
“This was the cream of marriage, this nightly turning out of the day's pocketful of memories, this deft habitual sharing of two… — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
to achieve unity without uniformity is the whole essence of the democratic way of life. — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
there is practically no difference at all between a family and a nation, except the difference in size. A family is a… — 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
