You can lock up from a thief, but you can't from a liar.

- Flora Thompson

Nature knows no calendar, the seasons move in a circle.

- Flora Thompson

Other days, other ways; and, although they have now been greatly improved upon, the old country midwives did at least succeed in bringing into the wo…

- Flora Thompson

It was a morning of ground mist, yellow sunshine, and high rifts of blue, white-cloud-dappled sky. The leaves were still thick on the trees, but de-s…

- Flora Thompson

The wife ought to have the first child and the husband the second, then there wouldn't ever be any more.

- Flora Thompson

Special qualities are required of the essayist. A poem or a novel may spring from the inner consciousness of an author. Reasoning poers must be broug…

- Flora Thompson

We cannot bring the good old days back but, if we must eat mass-made foods, get laws passed to insist upon its goodness and purity.

- Flora Thompson

Alas! in nature, as in art, we gain only according to our capacity. You cannot put an ocean in a pint pot.

- Flora Thompson

The luxuries of the few were becoming necessities of the many.

- Flora Thompson