Surely she had endured enough for one evening without having to listen to intelligent conversation?
Surely she had endured enough for one evening without having to listen to intelligent conversation? - Stella Gibbons
- 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.
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.
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…
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.
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.
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.
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'.
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.
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