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…

- Stella Gibbons

She liked Victorian novels. They were the only kind of novel you could read while eating an apple.

- Stella Gibbons

Nature is all very well in her place, but she must not be allowed to make things untidy.

- Stella Gibbons

Surely she had endured enough for one evening without having to listen to intelligent conversation?

- Stella Gibbons

Curious how Love destroys every vestige of that politeness which the human race, in its years of evolution, has so painfully acquired.

- Stella Gibbons

There are some things (like first love and one’s first reviews) at which a woman in her middle years does not care to look too closely.

- Stella Gibbons

I do not object to the phenomena, but I do object to the parrot.

- Stella Gibbons

A straight nose is a great help if one wishes to look serious'.

- Stella Gibbons

Like all really strong-minded women, on whom everybody flops, she adored being bossed about. It was so restful.

- Stella Gibbons