Old lady Quote by Agatha Christie

“There we were last summer, having a picnic in a sylvan setting. Birds were singing, the atmosphere was full of soft colours; there were…

— Adrian Bell

“While she lay there with these old worn thoughts coming obediently into her mind, called there by habit and the familiar quiet of early…

— Stella Gibbons

“So she sat down to morning tea, like any other old lady with a high nose, thin cheeks, a ring on her finger and…

— Virginia Woolf

“There's something about evening service in a country church that makes a fellow feel drowsy and peaceful. Sort of end-of-a-perfect-day feeling. Old Heppenstall was…

— P.G. Wodehouse

“Girls and boys and young women generally seemed glad to be in the woods. They looked in the pond and at the flowers, and…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Sometimes, on days when the weather was beyond redemption, mere residence in the house, situated in the midst of a steady and continuous rain,…

— Marcel Proust

“Mary watched the sunset from her carriage window, realizing that such beauty could never last. Life was a golden glory that faded in the…

— Margaret George

“She’d always loved the mountains, but as she turned back to face the spectacular seascape in the distance, she nearly lost her breath at…

— Steven Decker

“That plain, middle-aged face, with a grave penetrating kindness in it, seeming to tell of a human being who had reached a firm, safe…

— George Eliot

“She found a mossy hollow between the roots of a tree and, putting on her mackintosh, huddled down in her makeshift bed. She ate…

— William Boyd

“The women advised long walks. They told the wife to watch the sun rise and set, to look for solace in the natural world,…

— Amy Hempel

“To Martha it seemed that she stood outside life. The world went by her, colourless shapes on a flat pale background. Nothing had solidity…

— Nan Shepherd