Quotes by Stella Gibbons

Stella Gibbons

A straight nose is a great help if one wishes to look serious’.

Looks

Noses

Wish

And when April like an over-lustful lover leaped upon the lush flanks of the Downs there would be yet another child in the wretched hut down on Nettle Flitch Field, where Meriam housed the fruits of her shame.

Children

Fruit

Would Be

By god, DH Lawrence was right when he said there must be a dumb, dark, dull, bitter belly-tension between a man and a woman, and how else could this be achieved save in the long monotony of marriage?

Dark

Long

Men

Curious how Love destroys every vestige of that politeness which the human race, in its years of evolution, has so painfully acquired.

Evolution

Race

Years

Dawn crept over the Downs like a sinister white animal, followed by the snarling cries of a wind eating its way between the black boughs of the thorns. The wind was the furious voice of this sluggish animal light that was baring the dormers and mullions and scullions of Cold Comfort Farm.

Animal

Voice

Wind

Flora sighed. It was curious that persons who lived what the novelists called a rich emotional life always seemed to be a bit slow on the uptake.

Emotional

Novelists

Rich

Happiness can never hope to command so much interest as distress.

Command

Interest

Introspection

He was, she reflected, almost rudely like a tortoise; and she was glad her friend kept none as pets or they might have suspected mockery.

Might

Pet

Tortoises

Here was an occasion, she thought, for indulging in that deliberate rudeness which only persons with habitually good manners have the right to commit.

Cold Comfort Farm

Manners

Rudeness

I do not object to the phenomena, but I do object to the parrot.

Cold Comfort Farm

Objects

Parrots

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Animal

Apples

Art

Cheerful

Children

Cold

Cold Comfort Farm

Comfort

Command

Dark

Doe

Eating

Emotional

Enough

Epidemics

Evening

Evolution

Eye

Facts

Feelings

First Love

Florence Nightingale

Fruit

Giving

Gowns

Heart

Intelligent

Interest

Interesting

Introspection

Kind

Long

Looks

Manners

Mean

Men

Might

Mind

Nasty

Noses

Novelists

Objects

Parrots

Pet

Poor

Pride

Race

Rich

Rudeness

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Quotes by Stella Gibbons

Stella Gibbons

A straight nose is a great help if one wishes to look serious’.

And when April like an over-lustful lover leaped upon the lush flanks of the Downs there would be yet another child in the wretched hut down on Nettle Flitch Field, where Meriam housed the fruits of her shame.

By god, DH Lawrence was right when he said there must be a dumb, dark, dull, bitter belly-tension between a man and a woman, and how else could this be achieved save in the long monotony of marriage?

Curious how Love destroys every vestige of that politeness which the human race, in its years of evolution, has so painfully acquired.

Dawn crept over the Downs like a sinister white animal, followed by the snarling cries of a wind eating its way between the black boughs of the thorns. The wind was the furious voice of this sluggish animal light that was baring the dormers and mullions and scullions of Cold Comfort Farm.

Flora sighed. It was curious that persons who lived what the novelists called a rich emotional life always seemed to be a bit slow on the uptake.

Happiness can never hope to command so much interest as distress.

He was, she reflected, almost rudely like a tortoise; and she was glad her friend kept none as pets or they might have suspected mockery.

Here was an occasion, she thought, for indulging in that deliberate rudeness which only persons with habitually good manners have the right to commit.

I do not object to the phenomena, but I do object to the parrot.

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