Quotes by Jan Struther

Jan Struther

[Gardening] is a means by which you can attain many valuable hours of solitude without being thought unsociable.

Gardening

Mean

Solitude

A single person is a manageable entity, whom you can either make friends with or leave alone. But half of a married couple is not exactly a whole human being: if the marriage is successful it is something a little more than that; if unsuccessful, a little less. In either case, a fresh complication is added to the already intricate business of friendship: as Clem had once remarked, you might as well try to dance a tarantella with a Siamese twin.

Couple

Successful

Trying

And I am a mockery, who was God before.

Mockery

Constructive destruction is one of the most delightful employments in the world, and in civilized life the opportunities for it are only too rare.

Employment

Opportunity

World

For to love, loveless, is a bitter pill:But to be loved, unloving, bitterer still.

Bitter

Loveless

Pills

Giving a party is like having a baby: its conception is more fun than its completion; and once you have begun it, it is almost impossible to stop.

Baby

Fun

Party

how much of the fun of parenthood lay in watching the children remake, with delighted wonder, one’s own discoveries.

Children

Discovery

Fun

However long the horror continued, one must not get to the stage of refusing to think about it. To shrink from direct pain was bad enough, but to shrink from vicarious pain was the ultimate cowardice. And whereas to conceal direct pain was a virtue, to conceal vicarious pain was a sin. Only by feeling it to the utmost, and by expressing it, could the rest of the world help to heal the injury which had caused it. Money, food, clothing, shelter – people could give all these and still it would not be enough; it would not absolve them from paying also, in full, the imponderable tribute of grief.

Grief

Pain

Thinking

I can’t abide cats myself, but of course we have to have one in the kitchen to deal with the mice. I insisted on getting a black one, because anything else shows the dirt so in London.

Black

Cat

Kitchen

In childhood the daylight always fails too soon – except when there are going to be fireworks.

Childhood

Daylight

Failing

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Admiration And Respect

Adventure

Air

Baby

Believe

Bitter

Black

Calling

Cat

Childhood

Children

Circles

Citizens

Civilization

Confusion

Country

Couple

Daylight

Democracy

Discovery

Employment

Essence

Eye

Failing

Family

Fans

Feelings

Fun

Gardening

Grief

Happiness

Holiday

Home

Identity

Immortal

Important

Kitchen

Lakes

Leisure

Life

Loveless

Mars

Mean

Memories

Men

Metaphor

Mind

Mockery

Mood

Oblivion

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Quotes by Jan Struther

Jan Struther

[Gardening] is a means by which you can attain many valuable hours of solitude without being thought unsociable.

And I am a mockery, who was God before.

Constructive destruction is one of the most delightful employments in the world, and in civilized life the opportunities for it are only too rare.

For to love, loveless, is a bitter pill:But to be loved, unloving, bitterer still.

Giving a party is like having a baby: its conception is more fun than its completion; and once you have begun it, it is almost impossible to stop.

how much of the fun of parenthood lay in watching the children remake, with delighted wonder, one’s own discoveries.

I can’t abide cats myself, but of course we have to have one in the kitchen to deal with the mice. I insisted on getting a black one, because anything else shows the dirt so in London.

In childhood the daylight always fails too soon – except when there are going to be fireworks.

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