All Stella Gibbons Quotes
- 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.… Anyone
- The life of a journalist is poor, nasty, brutish, and short. So is his style Brutish
- Curious how Love destroys every vestige of that politeness which the human race, in its years of evolution, has so painfully acquired. Acquired
- A straight nose is a great help if one wishes to look serious'. Great
- 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… Care
- Nature is all very well in her place, but she must not be allowed to make things untidy. All
- I do not object to the phenomena, but I do object to the parrot. Funny
- I saw something nasty in the woodshed. Inspirational
- Like all really strong-minded women, on whom everybody flops, she adored being bossed about. It was so restful. Adored
- 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,… All
- She liked Victorian novels. They were the only kind of novel you could read while eating an apple. 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… Acquired
- There have always been Starkadders at Cold Comfort Farm Been
- 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. Friend
- 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… All
- 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… Alike
- 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… Acting
- Here was an occasion, she thought, for indulging in that deliberate rudeness which only persons with habitually good manners have the right to commit... Commit
- That would be delightful,' agreed Flora, thinking how nasty and boring it would be. Agreed
- Happiness can never hope to command so much interest as distress. Command
- Flora sighed. It was curious that persons who lived what the novelists called a rich emotional life always seemed to be a bit slow on… Always Seemed
- Surely she had endured enough for one evening without having to listen to intelligent conversation? Conversation
- The education bestowed on Flora Poste by her parents had been expensive, athletic and prolonged; and when they died within a few weeks of one… Annual