"The Oldfields of the future are beyond hearing;……" — Beverley Nichols
"The Oldfields of the future are beyond hearing; they are shut up in the factories and the workshops, leading a rackety and mechanical existence, to the damage of their bodies and the peril of their souls, for the sake of an extra pound or so a week, which they promptly spend on mental or physical narcotics."
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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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I had never 'taken a cutting' before ... Do you realize that the whole thing is miraculous? It is exactly…
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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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