Flora Thompson Quotes

Any artwork needs time and patience and needs above a quiet mind.

You can lock up from a thief, but you can't from a liar.

We cannot bring the good old days back but, if we must eat mass-made foods, get laws passed to insist upon its goodness and purity.

Happiness depends more upon the state of mind - and body, perhaps - than upon circumstances and events.

A liar did ought to have a good memory.

Words as to the inner emotions do not come readily to me, for I have led an isolated life mentally and spiritually.

When I am dead and in my head
And all my bones are are rotten,
Take this book and think of me
And mind I'm not forgotten.

Alas! in nature, as in art, we gain only according to our capacity. You cannot put an ocean in a pint pot.

Some great poet or philosopher once said that " he who goes to nature for comfort must go to her empty handed " , and I think he was right.

Afterwards, they always had tea in the kitchen, much the nicest room in the house.

The luxuries of the few were becoming necessities of the many ...

One boy's a boy; two boys be half a boy, and three boys be no boy at all', ran the old country saying.

What greater restoratives have we poor mortals than a good meal taken in the company of loving friends?

The wife ought to have the first child and the husband the second, then there wouldn't ever be any more.

No, I be-ant expectin' nothin', but I be so yarnin

Nature knows no calendar, the seasons move in a circle.

Brains were no good to a working man; they only made him discontented and saucy and lose his jobs. She'd seen it happen again and again.

Unlike most great talkers, the rooks are good workers, too.

It was ordained that our earthly pilgrammage should be a struggle, and life would be a tame affair if everything went smoothly.