Cities Quote by Beverley Nichols

“Marriage is a book in which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.”

— 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…

— Beverley Nichols

Long experience has taught me that people who do not like geraniums have something morally unsound about them. Sooner or later you will find…

— Beverley Nichols

To dig one's own spade into one's own earth! Has life anything better to offer than this?

— Beverley Nichols

“Well, I love geraniums, and anybody who does not love geraniums must obviously be a depraved and loathsome person.”

— Beverley Nichols

Most people, early in November, take last looks at their gardens, are are then prepared to ignore them until the spring. I am quite…

— Beverley Nichols

Do you ever find yourself bursting into a sort of lunatic laughter at the sheer prettiness of things?

— Beverley Nichols

A garden is a place for shaping a little world of your own according to your heart's desire.

— Beverley Nichols

Every moment of this strange and lovely life from dawn to dusk, is a miracle. Somewhere, always a rose is opening its petals to…

— Beverley Nichols

“On and on we wander in these pages--and we never reach the point because, happily, there is no point to reach.”

— Beverley Nichols

We both know, you and I, that if all men were gardeners, the world at last would be at peace.

— Beverley Nichols

“One of the many reasons why gardens are increasingly precious to us in this day and age is that they help us to escape…

— Beverley Nichols