Cows in India occupy the same position in society as women did in England before they got the vote. Woman was revered… — Stella Benson Anxiety Copy Share Image
“Now there is hardly anything but magic abroad before seven o'clock in the morning. Only the disciples of magic like getting their… — Stella Benson Empty stomach Copy Share Image
Family jokes, through rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive. — Stella Benson Family Copy Share Image
Californians have brought suburb-making almost to an art. Their cities and their country-side are equally suburban. No-one has a country house in… — Stella Benson Art Copy Share Image
“Trees, skies, valleys mountains, seen through the rain-spotted windshield, were like a distorted, stippled landscape painted by a beginner who has not… — Stella Benson Life Copy Share Image
Music is the ethereal connection between this world and the other. — Stella Benson Connections Copy Share Image
“The hoarse church-bells of London ring; The hoarser horns of London croak; The poor brown lives of London cling About the poor… — Stella Benson Copy Share Image
The Law likes to be argued with. Take away words and where is the Law? Silence always annoys it. — Stella Benson Annoying Copy Share Image
The sun was like a word written between the sea and the sky, a word that was swallowed up by the sea… — Stella Benson Men Copy Share Image
Curiosity needs food as much as any of us, and dies soon if denied it. — Stella Benson Curiosity Copy Share Image
“To-day she had watched magic dancing in a mackintosh, and she was at a loss.” — Stella Benson Copy Share Image
“To-night the swinging stars shall plumb The silence of the sky.” — Stella Benson Astronomy Copy Share Image
Imagination seems to be a glory and a misery, a blessing and a curse. Adam, to his sorrow, lacked it. Eve, to… — Stella Benson Adam Copy Share Image
Nearly everybody in San Francisco writes poetry. Few San Franciscans would admit this, but most of them would rather like to have… — Stella Benson Franciscans Copy Share Image
“I want to introduce you to Jay, a 'bus-conductor and an idealist. She is not the heroine, but the most constantly apparent… — Stella Benson Books Copy Share Image
“This is not a real book. It does not deal with real people, nor should it be read by real people. But… — Stella Benson Book Copy Share Image
The moment of cocoa-drinking was always the moment of confidences. — Stella Benson Chocolate Copy Share Image
There are, broadly speaking, two kinds of workers in the world, the people who do all the work, and the people who… — Stella Benson Busy Copy Share Image
Americans were people who wanted to leave every place better than they found it, to leave every man more of a man… — Stella Benson Admirable Copy Share Image
“They were not spontaneous people. They were born with too great a love of words, a passion for drama at the expense… — Stella Benson Common life Copy Share Image
“It is a place of fine weather, and this is a book of fine weather, a book written in Spring. I will… — Stella Benson Book Copy Share Image
