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> [“Indeed, Hilda was always putting her oar in, constituting herself the voice of conscience; she was a task-mistress, leading the chorus, undefined, unrecognised, but clearly felt, of those who thought he ought to try more, do more, be more, than…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/l-p-hartley/indeed-hilda-was-always-putting-her-oar-in-constituting-herself-the/)

[L.P. Hartley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/l-p-hartley/)

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## More by L.P. Hartley

> [“But I was not so much interested in facts themselves as in the importance they had for my imagination. I was passionately interested in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/l-p-hartley/but-i-was-not-so-much-interested-in-facts-themselves-as-in-the/)

[L.P. Hartley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/l-p-hartley/)

> [“I had never met a lord before, nor had I ever expected to meet one. It didn't matter what he looked like: he was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/l-p-hartley/i-had-never-met-a-lord-before-nor-had-i-ever-expected-to-meet-one-it/)

[L.P. Hartley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/l-p-hartley/)

> [“How terrifyingly efficient she sounds," said Stephen. "I think I should faint in her presence.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/l-p-hartley/how-terrifyingly-efficient-she-sounds-said-stephen-i-think-i-should/)

[L.P. Hartley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/l-p-hartley/)

> [You insisted on thinking of them as angels, even if they were fallen angels.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/l-p-hartley/you-insisted-on-thinking-of-them-as-angels-even-if-they-were-fallen/)

[L.P. Hartley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/l-p-hartley/)

> [My dream had become my reality: my old life was a discarded husk.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/l-p-hartley/my-dream-had-become-my-reality-my-old-life-was-a-discarded-husk/)

[L.P. Hartley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/l-p-hartley/)

> [“...for the first time I couldn't feel really interested in my mother's letter. The small concerns of home, instead of coming close to me…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/l-p-hartley/for-the-first-time-i-couldn-t-feel-really-interested-in-my-mother-s/)

[L.P. Hartley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/l-p-hartley/)

> [“I should not have cared to see it as an act of self-sacrifice even if it had been one; for there is nothing clever…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/l-p-hartley/i-should-not-have-cared-to-see-it-as-an-act-of-self-sacrifice-even-if/)

[L.P. Hartley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/l-p-hartley/)

> [“Not Adam and Eve, after eating the apple, could have been more upset than I was.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/l-p-hartley/not-adam-and-eve-after-eating-the-apple-could-have-been-more-upset/)

[L.P. Hartley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/l-p-hartley/)

> [“Even the most impassioned devotee of the ghost story would admit that the taste for it is slightly abnormal, a survival, perhaps, from adolescence,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/l-p-hartley/even-the-most-impassioned-devotee-of-the-ghost-story-would-admit-that/)

[L.P. Hartley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/l-p-hartley/)

> [“If my twelve-year-old self, of whom I had grown rather fond, thinking about him, were to reproach me: 'Why have you grown up such…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/l-p-hartley/if-my-twelve-year-old-self-of-whom-i-had-grown-rather-fond-thinking/)

[L.P. Hartley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/l-p-hartley/)

> [Grown-ups didn't seem to realize that for me, as for most other schoolboys, it was easier to keep silent than to speak. I was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/l-p-hartley/grown-ups-didn-t-seem-to-realize-that-for-me-as-for-most-other/)

[L.P. Hartley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/l-p-hartley/)

> [It's better to write about things you feel than about things you know about.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/l-p-hartley/it-s-better-to-write-about-things-you-feel-than-about-things-you-know/)

[L.P. Hartley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/l-p-hartley/)

> [“To my mind's eye, my buried memories of Brandham Hall are like effects of chiaroscuro, patches of light and dark: it is only with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/l-p-hartley/to-my-mind-s-eye-my-buried-memories-of-brandham-hall-are-like-effects/)

[L.P. Hartley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/l-p-hartley/)

> [“You flew too near the sun and you were scorched.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/l-p-hartley/you-flew-too-near-the-sun-and-you-were-scorched/)

[L.P. Hartley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/l-p-hartley/)

> [“No, I thought, growing more rebellious, life has its own laws and it is for me to defend myself against whatever comes along, without…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/l-p-hartley/no-i-thought-growing-more-rebellious-life-has-its-own-laws-and-it-is/)

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