the chief thing I learnt at school was how to tell lies.

- Gwen Raverat

you may take it from me, that however hard you try - or don't try; whatever you do - or don't do; for better, for worse; for richer, for poorer; ever…

- Gwen Raverat

I have defined Ladies as people who did not do things themselves.

- Gwen Raverat

You can have no idea, if you have not tried, how difficult it is to find out anything whatever from an encyclopedia, unless you know all about it alr…

- Gwen Raverat

The first religious experience that I can remember is getting under the nursery table to pray that the dancing mistress might be dead before we got t…

- Gwen Raverat