Flora Thompson

Candleford Green was but a small village and there were fields and meadows and woods all around it. As soon as Laura…

— Flora Thompson

“There Laura spent many happy hours, supposed to be picking fruit for jam, but for the better part of the time reading…

— Flora Thompson

Words as to the inner emotions do not come readily to me, for I have led an isolated life mentally and spiritually.

— Flora Thompson

Manner and morals have improved, improved wages and world travel during the war have had effect, and the farm labourer now is…

— Flora Thompson

Some great poet or philosopher once said that " he who goes to nature for comfort must go to her empty handed…

— Flora Thompson

“Brains were no good to a working man; they only made him discontented and saucy and lose his jobs. She'd seen it…

— Flora Thompson

happiness depends more upon the state of mind - and body, perhaps - than upon circumstances and events.

— Flora Thompson

Pale purple as the bloom om a ripe plum, veined with the gold of late flowering gorse, set with small slender birches,just…

— Flora Thompson

“Twas a still, calm night and the moon's pale light Shone over hill and dale When friends mute with grief stood around…

— Flora Thompson

You can lock up from a thief, but you can't from a liar.

— Flora Thompson

What is charm, it is not a moral quality, it is not intellectual for no man by much thinking is able to…

— Flora Thompson

It was a morning of ground mist, yellow sunshine, and high rifts of blue, white-cloud-dappled sky. The leaves were still thick on…

— Flora Thompson