"Surely she had endured enough for one evening……" — Stella Gibbons
"Surely she had endured enough for one evening without having to listen to intelligent conversation?"
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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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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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It is all right to hold a conversation but you should let go of it now and then.
— Richard Armour
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I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know…
— Antonin Artaud
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Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds…
— Mary Astell
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My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that…
— Jane Austen
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The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which,…
— Douglas Adams
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I don't think of myself as giving interviews. I just have conversations. That gets me in trouble.
— Charles Barkley
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I come from an Italian family. One of the greatest and most profound expressions we would ever use in conversations…
— Mario Batali
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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship…
— Joseph Addison
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A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction,…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.
— Yogi Berra
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Love without conversation is impossible.
— Mortimer Adler
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I have very intense conversations with friends, people I really interconnect with. We talk about politics, important things. I like…
— Jacqueline Bisset
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