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Stella Gibbons has 23 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Well, when I am fifty-three or so I would like to write a novel as good as Persuasion but with a modern…
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The life of a journalist is poor, nasty, brutish, and short. So is his style
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Curious how Love destroys every vestige of that politeness which the human race, in its years of evolution, has so painfully acquired.
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A straight nose is a great help if one wishes to look serious'.
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There are some things (like first love and one’s first reviews) at which a woman in her middle years does not care…
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Nature is all very well in her place, but she must not be allowed to make things untidy.
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I do not object to the phenomena, but I do object to the parrot.
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I saw something nasty in the woodshed.
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Like all really strong-minded women, on whom everybody flops, she adored being bossed about. It was so restful.
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You have the most revolting Florence Nightingale complex,' said Mrs. Smiling. It is not that at all, and well you know it.…
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She liked Victorian novels. They were the only kind of novel you could read while eating an apple.
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One of the disadvantages of almost universal education was the fact that all kinds of persons acquired a familiarity with one's favorite…
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If you wish me well, do not stand pitying me, but lend me some succour as fast as you can; for pity…
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My favorite book of all time is Cold Comfort Farm, by Stella Gibbons.
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There have always been Starkadders at Cold Comfort Farm
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There is some comfort in killing that which has hurt you, but it is cold comfort. It'll destroy things inside of you…
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I told him they built a statue of Schultz, and then he said that a monument is cold comfort to a dead…
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Being alone makes us stronger. That’s the honest truth. But it’s cold comfort, since even if I wanted company no one will…
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