"I had never 'taken a cutting' before ...……" — Beverley Nichols
"I had never 'taken a cutting' before ... Do you realize that the whole thing is miraculous? It is exactly as though you were to cut off your wife's leg, stick it in the lawn, and be greeted on the following day by an entirely new woman, sprung from the leg, advancing across the lawn to meet you."
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Beverley Nichols
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19 Quotes by Beverley Nichols
Beverley Nichols has 19 quotes on this site.
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Life in the country teaches one that the really stimulating things are the quiet, natural things, and the really wearisome…
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To dig one's own spade into one's own earth! Has life anything better to offer than this?
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Most people, early in November, take last looks at their gardens, are are then prepared to ignore them until the…
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It is only to the gardener that time is a friend, giving each year more than he steals.
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Long experience has taught me that people who do not like geraniums have something morally unsound about them. Sooner or…
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We both know, you and I, that if all men were gardeners, the world at last would be at peace.
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A garden is a place for shaping a little world of your own according to your heart's desire.
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A gardener is never shut out from his garden, wherever he may be. Its comfort never fails. Though the city…
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The Oldfields of the future are beyond hearing; they are shut up in the factories and the workshops, leading a…
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To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat.
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Last summer I was staying at a house in Hampshire which was famous for the brilliance and the originality of…
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As any psychologist will tell you, the worst thing you can possibly do to a woman is to deprive her…
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