"I love Evensong. There's something sad and essentially……" — Barbara Pym

"I love Evensong. There's something sad and essentially English about it."

— Barbara Pym

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22 Quotes by Barbara Pym

Barbara Pym has 22 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it.
[The woman] paused and seemed to take a deep breath. 'You see,' she declared. 'I am Tom Mallow's aunt.' Catherine's…
Once outside the magic circle the writers became their lonely selves, pondering on poems, observing their fellow men ruthlessly, putting…
I was so astonished that I could think of nothing to say, but wondered irrelevantly if I was to be…
Life is cruel and we do terrible things to each other.
Oh, but it was splendid the things women were doing for men all the time, thought Jane. Making them feel,…
Of course it's alright for librarians to smell of drink.
Perhaps I need some shattering experience to awaken and inspire me, or at least to give me some emotion to…
Perhaps there can be too much making of cups of tea, I thought, as I watched Miss Statham filling the…
Dulcie always found a public library a little upsetting, for one saw so many odd people there...
I stretched out my hand towards the little bookshelf where I kept cookery and devotional books, the most comfortable bedside…
Oh, this coming back to an empty house,' Rupert thought, when he had seen her safely up to her door.…

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More English Quotes

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Well, I'm having a good time. Which makes me feel guilty too. How very English. — David Attenborough
You hear doom and gloom about the Internet ruining young people's command of English - that's nonsense. — Margaret Atwood
I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime… — John James Audubon
No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist. — Walter Bagehot
Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century. — Russell Baker
'Batman' took 10 months to film, and by the time I stopped working on it, it took a long time… — Christian Bale
I look at myself, and I see a Spanish person who's trying to be understood by an English-speaking audience and… — Javier Bardem
I'm very sensitive to the English language. I studied the dictionary obsessively when I was a kid and collect old… — Drew Barrymore
I was crossing the English Channel with a carbon-fiber wing on my back. — Felix Baumgartner
I do love cricket - it's so very English. — Sarah Bernhardt
The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes. — Thomas Beecham
Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing. — Robert Benchley

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