Mechanics Life Quotes by Jan Struther

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

“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

“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

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

“...[Y]ou cannot successfully navigate the future unless you keep always framed beside it a small clear image of the past.”

— Jan Struther

One is what one remembers: no more, no less.

— Jan Struther

In childhood the daylight always fails too soon -- except when there are going to be fireworks;

— Jan Struther

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

swans ... always look as though they'd just been reading their own fan-mail.

— Jan Struther

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

Physical weather certainly is beyond our control. ... But human weather - the psychological climate of the world - is not beyond our control.…

— Jan Struther

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