"To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers……" — Beverley Nichols

To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form… - Beverley Nichols

"To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat."

— Beverley Nichols

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19 Quotes by Beverley Nichols

Beverley Nichols has 19 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

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

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More Defeat Quotes

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In today's interdependent world, a threat to one becomes a menace to all. And no state can defeat these challenges… — Michelle Bachelet
When I was in Minnesota serving in the state Senate and in Washington, D.C., I did everything I could to… — Michele Bachmann
The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him. — Russell Baker
If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat. — Simone de Beauvoir
Watergate enabled the Democrats to cut off all aid to South Vietnam and ensure American defeat in a war their… — Conrad Black
There is no meeting of minds, no point of understanding with such terror. Just a choice: Defeat it or be… — Tony Blair
Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily. — Napoleon Bonaparte
He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat. — Napoleon Bonaparte
My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until… — Bjorn Borg
At the end of the day we want to bring stability and hope to Iraq. That's the only way to… — Abdallah II
The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren't always defeats and victories for the fellows at the… — Bertolt Brecht
I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to… — Robert Browning

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