"Well, when I am fifty-three or so I……" — Stella Gibbons
"Well, when I am fifty-three or so I would like to write a novel as good as Persuasion but with a modern setting, of course. For the next thirty years or so I shall be collecting material for it. If anyone asks me what I work at, I shall say, 'Collecting material'. No one can object to that."
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Stella Gibbons
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23 Quotes by Stella Gibbons
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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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There have always been Starkadders at Cold Comfort Farm
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