"Travel is the most private of pleasures. There……" — Vita Sackville-West
"Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong-Kong."
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43 Quotes by Vita Sackville-West
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The more one gardens, the more one learns; And the more one learns, the more one realizes how little one…
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Summer makes a silence after spring.
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The most noteworthy thing about gardeners is that they are always optimistic, always enterprising, and never satisfied. They always look…
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Gardening is a luxury occupation: an ornament, not a necessity, of life.... Fortunate gardener, who may preoccupy himself solely with…
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A flowerless room is a soulless room, to my way of thinking; but even a solitary little vase of a…
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Flowers really do intoxicate me.
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I loved you when love was Spring, and May, Loved you when summer deepened into June, and now when autumn…
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Things were not tragic for us then, because although we cared passionately we didn't care deeply.
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To hope for Paradise is to live in Paradise, a very different thing from actually getting there.
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It isn't that I don't like sweet disorder, but it has to be judiciously arranged.
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I suppose the pleasure of the country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidences of the determination to live.…
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Is it better to be extremely ambitious, or rather modest? Probably the latter is safer; but I hate safety, and…
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I definitely see the good in people. Certainly in my own life I strive to be somebody who is functional…
— Alan Ball
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I actually regard Facebook as a huge bore, but I cannot refrain from participating in it. I guess I crave…
— Roseanne Barr
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Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
— Ambrose Bierce
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A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.
— Josh Billings
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Feminists bore me to death. I follow my instinct and if that supports young girls in any way, great. But…
— Bjork
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I have a gift for enraging people, but if I ever bore you it will be with a knife.
— Louise Brooks
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What men don't want, in fact what anyone who's any sort of thrill-seeking, intelligent adult doesn't want, is some crushing…
— Julie Burchill
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The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
— Samuel Butler
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There is no bore like a clever bore.
— Samuel Butler
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Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.
— Winston Churchill
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I love stories. When I'm writing, what I pretend subconsciously is that we're cavemen, we're sitting around the fire, and…
— Harlan Coben
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Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man-yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the…
— Marcus Aurelius
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