"Curious how Love destroys every vestige of that……" — Stella Gibbons
"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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Stella Gibbons
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23 Quotes by Stella Gibbons
Stella Gibbons has 23 quotes on this site.
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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…
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The life of a journalist is poor, nasty, brutish, and short. So is his style
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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…
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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…
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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…
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There have always been Starkadders at Cold Comfort Farm
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Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.
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I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something…
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The first responsibility of the Muslim is as teacher. That is his job, to teach. His first school, his first…
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Out of war nations acquire additional territory, if they are victorious. They just take it. This newly acquired territory promptly…
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I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War.
— A. S. Byatt
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Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.
— Andrew Carnegie
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Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.
— Willa Cather
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Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to…
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Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
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To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been acquired…
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Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.
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Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to…
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