I have never been able to wear a hat. My hair is peculiar in that it grows so fast that any hat I put on instantly leaps from my head.

- Nancy Spain

I like a new clean book, freshly bound, particularly when I am the first to read it. I like dirty books - where other people have been before me, sli…

- Nancy Spain

Whenever I have tried to do anything For Money it has always led me astray.

- Nancy Spain

Everything begins in Paris.

- Nancy Spain

Only a fool would make the bed every day.

- Nancy Spain

Ireland is a wonderful place to write in. Even although the atmosphere was so Faith-laden that I was often worried that I was not writing a book to t…

- Nancy Spain

There are people whom one loves immediately and forever. Even to know they are alive in the world with one is quite enough.

- Nancy Spain

The world of books: romantic, idle, shiftless world so beautiful, so cheap compared with living.

- Nancy Spain

In love' is for the romantic. 'Love' for the realist.

- Nancy Spain