Stella Gibbons Quotes

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• Well, when I am fifty-three or so I would like to write a novel as good as Persuasion but with a modern setting, of course.…
• The life of a journalist is poor, nasty, brutish, and short. So is his style
• Curious how Love destroys every vestige of that politeness which the human race, in its years of evolution, has so painfully acquired.
• A straight nose is a great help if one wishes to look serious'.
• There are some things (like first love and one’s first reviews) at which a woman in her middle years does not care to look too…
• Nature is all very well in her place, but she must not be allowed to make things untidy.
• I do not object to the phenomena, but I do object to the parrot.
• I saw something nasty in the woodshed.
• Like all really strong-minded women, on whom everybody flops, she adored being bossed about. It was so restful.
• You have the most revolting Florence Nightingale complex,' said Mrs. Smiling. It is not that at all, and well you know it. On the whole,…
• She liked Victorian novels. They were the only kind of novel you could read while eating an apple.
• One of the disadvantages of almost universal education was the fact that all kinds of persons acquired a familiarity with one's favorite writers. It gave…
• There have always been Starkadders at Cold Comfort Farm
• He was, she reflected, almost rudely like a tortoise; and she was glad her friend kept none as pets or they might have suspected mockery.
• Well,' said Mrs Smiling, 'it sounds an appalling place, but in a different way from all the others. I mean, it does sound interesting and…
• Women are all alike-- aye fussin' over their fal-lals and bedazin' a man's eyes, when all they really want is man's blood and his heart…
• On the whole, Flora liked it better when they were silent, though it did rather give her the feeling that she was acting in one…
• Here was an occasion, she thought, for indulging in that deliberate rudeness which only persons with habitually good manners have the right to commit...
• That would be delightful,' agreed Flora, thinking how nasty and boring it would be.
• Happiness can never hope to command so much interest as distress.

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