"She liked Victorian novels. They were the only……" — Stella Gibbons
"She liked Victorian novels. They were the only kind of novel you could read while eating an apple."
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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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Curious how Love destroys every vestige of that politeness which the human race, in its years of evolution, has so…
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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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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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More Apple Quotes
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Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.
— Bernard Baruch
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For an Apple is in it self a little Universe; the Seed, hotter than the other parts thereof, is its…
— Cyrano de Bergerac
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When I met Apple, I made it very clear that I am an old punk and I have never done…
— Bjork
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I think the only reason you visit an Apple store is because you wonder what life is like on another…
— Lewis Black
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I have to have lemon and honey. I have to have apple cider vinegar, Braggs. And I have to have…
— Mary J. Blige
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In 1980, Atari was bringing in around two billion dollars in revenue and Chuck E. Cheese's some five hundred million.…
— Nolan Bushnell
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Of emotions, of love, of breakup, of love and hate and death and dying, mama, apple pie, and the whole…
— Johnny Cash
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With an apple I will astonish Paris.
— Paul Cezanne
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Why not upset the apple cart? If you don't, the apples will rot anyway.
— Frank A. Clark
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My wife gets all the money I make. I just get an apple and clean clothes every morning.
— Ray Romano
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Interesting - I use a Mac to help me design the next Cray.(when he was told that Apple Inc. had…
— Seymour Cray
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The rest of the world loves soccer. Surely we must be missing something. Uh, isn't that what the Russians told…
— Unknown Author
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