One of the disadvantages of almost universal education was the fact that all kinds of persons acquired a familiarity with one's favorite writers. It gave one a curious feeling; it was like seeing a drunken stranger wrapped in one's dressing gown.
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
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
She liked Victorian novels. They were the only kind of novel you could read while eating an apple.
Surely she had endured enough for one evening without having to listen to intelligent conversation? - Stella Gibbons
Surely she had endured enough for one evening without having to listen to intelligent conversation?
Curious how Love destroys every vestige of that politeness which the human race, in its years of evolution, has so painfully acquired. - Stella Gibbons
Curious how Love destroys every vestige of that politeness which the human race, in its years of evolution, has so painfully acquired.
Nature is all very well in her place, but she must not be allowed to make things untidy. - Stella Gibbons
Nature is all very well in her place, but she must not be allowed to make things untidy.
Like all really strong-minded women, on whom everybody flops, she adored being bossed about. It was so restful. - Stella Gibbons
Like all really strong-minded women, on whom everybody flops, she adored being bossed about. It was so restful.
A straight nose is a great help if one wishes to look serious'. - Stella Gibbons
A straight nose is a great help if one wishes to look serious'.
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
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.
I do not object to the phenomena, but I do object to the parrot. - Stella Gibbons
I do not object to the phenomena, but I do object to the parrot.
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