Cold Comfort Farm
Stella Gibbons
Top 10 Best Quotes
“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 or so I shall be collecting material for it. If anyone asks me what I work at, I shall say, 'Collecting material'. No one can object to that.”
“I saw something nasty in the woodshed.”
“That would be delightful,' agreed Flora, thinking how nasty and boring it would be.”
“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?”
“Mary, you know I hate parties. My idea of hell is a very large party in a cold room where everybody has to play hockey properly.”
“Like all really strong-minded women, on whom everybody flops, she adored being bossed about. It was so restful.”
“You have the most revolting Florence Nightingale complex,' said Mrs. Smiling. It is not that at all, and well you know it. On the whole, I dislike my fellow beings; I find them so difficult to understand. But I have a tidy mind and untidy lives irritate me. Also, they are uncivilized.”
“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.”
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