She is never alone when she has Her Books. Books, to her, are Friends. Give her Shakespeare or Jane Austen, Meredith or Hardy, and she is Lost - lost in a world of her own. She sleeps so little that most of her nights are spent reading.
Every Englishman is an average Englishman: it is a national characteristic. - E. M. Delafield
Every Englishman is an average Englishman: it is a national characteristic.
- E. M. Delafield
Are modern children going to revolt against being modern, and if so, what form will reaction of modern parents take? - E. M. Delafield
Are modern children going to revolt against being modern, and if so, what form will reaction of modern parents take?
The best and most popular novelists do not, as a rule, have children in their books at all, and this is wise. Parents are about the only people who a… - E. M. Delafield
The best and most popular novelists do not, as a rule, have children in their books at all, and this is wise. Parents are about the only people who a…
Most Englishmen are convinced that God is an Englishman, probably educated at Eton. - E. M. Delafield
Most Englishmen are convinced that God is an Englishman, probably educated at Eton.
There is a certain strong sense of inner conviction that strikes, with a pang as that of birth, through the very soul, and which is experienced but o… - E. M. Delafield
There is a certain strong sense of inner conviction that strikes, with a pang as that of birth, through the very soul, and which is experienced but o…
People in England who do not like gardening are very few, and of the few there are, many do not own to it, knowing that they might just as well own t… - E. M. Delafield
People in England who do not like gardening are very few, and of the few there are, many do not own to it, knowing that they might just as well own t…
A child with an intense capacity for feeling can suffer to a degree that is beyond any degree of adult suffering, because imagination, ignorance, and… - E. M. Delafield
A child with an intense capacity for feeling can suffer to a degree that is beyond any degree of adult suffering, because imagination, ignorance, and…
She is never alone when she has Her Books. Books, to her, are Friends. Give her Shakespeare or Jane Austen, Meredith or Hardy, and she is Lost - lost… - E. M. Delafield
She is never alone when she has Her Books. Books, to her, are Friends. Give her Shakespeare or Jane Austen, Meredith or Hardy, and she is Lost - lost…
Am sorry to note that abuse and condemnation of a common acquaintance often constitutes very strong bond of union between otherwise uncongenial spiri… - E. M. Delafield
Am sorry to note that abuse and condemnation of a common acquaintance often constitutes very strong bond of union between otherwise uncongenial spiri…
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