“Marriage is a book in which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.” — Beverley Nichols Book Copy Share Image
I had never 'taken a cutting' before ... Do you realize that the whole thing is miraculous? It is exactly as though… — Beverley Nichols Advancing Copy Share Image
Long experience has taught me that people who do not like geraniums have something morally unsound about them. Sooner or later you… — Beverley Nichols Book Copy Share Image
To dig one's own spade into one's own earth! Has life anything better to offer than this? — Beverley Nichols Earth Copy Share Image
“Well, I love geraniums, and anybody who does not love geraniums must obviously be a depraved and loathsome person.” — Beverley Nichols Depraved Copy Share Image
Most people, early in November, take last looks at their gardens, are are then prepared to ignore them until the spring. I… — Beverley Nichols Chance Copy Share Image
Do you ever find yourself bursting into a sort of lunatic laughter at the sheer prettiness of things? — Beverley Nichols Bursting Copy Share Image
A garden is a place for shaping a little world of your own according to your heart's desire. — Beverley Nichols Desire Copy Share Image
Every moment of this strange and lovely life from dawn to dusk, is a miracle. Somewhere, always a rose is opening its… — Beverley Nichols Dawn Copy Share Image
“On and on we wander in these pages--and we never reach the point because, happily, there is no point to reach.” — Beverley Nichols Humor Copy Share Image
A gardener is never shut out from his garden, wherever he may be. Its comfort never fails. Though the city may close… — Beverley Nichols Cities Copy Share Image
We both know, you and I, that if all men were gardeners, the world at last would be at peace. — Beverley Nichols Gardener Copy Share Image
“One of the many reasons why gardens are increasingly precious to us in this day and age is that they help us… — Beverley Nichols Garden Copy Share Image
“Why do insurance companies, when they want to describe an act of God, invariably pick on something which sounds much more like… — Beverley Nichols Copy Share Image
A garden without cats, it will be generally agreed, can scarcely deserve to be called a garden at all. — Beverley Nichols Agreement Copy Share Image
A garden without cats, it will be generally agreed, can scarcely deserve to be called a garden at all...much of the magic… — Beverley Nichols Bed Copy Share Image
Life in the country teaches one that the really stimulating things are the quiet, natural things, and the really wearisome things are… — Beverley Nichols Air Copy Share Image
It is only to the gardener that time is a friend, giving each year more than he steals. — Beverley Nichols Friendship Copy Share Image
Let us be honest: most of us rather like our cats to have a streak of wickedness. I should not feel quite… — Beverley Nichols Being honest Copy Share Image
As any psychologist will tell you, the worst thing you can possibly do to a woman is to deprive her of a… — Beverley Nichols Grievance Copy Share Image
To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat. — Beverley Nichols Defeat Copy Share Image
“For a garden is a mistress, and gardening is a blend of all the arts, and if it is not the death… — Beverley Nichols Art Copy Share Image
“Often, when I have been feeling lonely, when a book as been thrust aside in boredom [...] I have lain back and… — Beverley Nichols Books Copy Share Image
The Oldfields of the future are beyond hearing; they are shut up in the factories and the workshops, leading a rackety and… — Beverley Nichols Body Copy Share Image
Last summer I was staying at a house in Hampshire which was famous for the brilliance and the originality of its gardens.… — Beverley Nichols August Copy Share Image
