Elizabeth Von Arnim Quotes
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The longer I live the greater is my respect for manure in all its forms.
— Elizabeth Von Arnim
She made him think of his mother, of his nurse, of all things kind and comforting, besides having the attraction of not being his mother or his nurse.
— Elizabeth Von Arnim
If you have once thoroughly bored somebody it is next to impossible to unbore him.
— Elizabeth Von Arnim
Once more she had that really rather disgusting suspicion that her life till now had not only been loud but empty.
— Elizabeth Von Arnim
Fortunately, though she was hungry, she didn't mind missing a meal. Life was full of meals. They took up an enormous proportion of one's time.
— Elizabeth Von Arnim
Nobody could have put her in the shade, blown out her light that evening; she was too evidently shining.
— Elizabeth Von Arnim
And there they were, arrived; and it was San Salvatore; and their suit-cases were waiting for them; and they had not been murdered.
— Elizabeth Von Arnim
Many are the friendships that have found an unforseeen and sudden end on a journey, and few are those that survive it.
— Elizabeth Von Arnim
And then when I got home I burrowed about among my books, arranging their volumes and loving the feel of them.
— Elizabeth Von Arnim
For years she had been able to be happy only by forgetting happiness.
— Elizabeth Von Arnim
I want to be as idle as I can, so that my soul may have time to grow.
— Elizabeth Von Arnim
It is true she liked him most when he wasn't there, but then she usually liked everybody most when they weren't there.
— Elizabeth Von Arnim
At night the bottom of the valley looks like water, and the lamps in the little town lying along it like quivering reflections of the stars.
— Elizabeth Von Arnim
Love isn't decent. Love is glorious and shameless.
— Elizabeth Von Arnim
There's no safety in love. You risk the whole of life. But the great thing is to risk -to believe, and to risk everything for your belief.
— Elizabeth Von Arnim
Things were a little untidy, but what did that matter? It was possible to become the slave of things; possible to miss life in preparation for living.
— Elizabeth Von Arnim
Nor would I willingly miss the early darkness and the pleasant firelight tea and the long evenings among my books.
— Elizabeth Von Arnim
He thought her delightful, - freckles, picnic-untidiness and all.
— Elizabeth Von Arnim
And when I'm with you," she said, "I feel as if I were stuffed with - oh, with stars.
— Elizabeth Von Arnim
And the summer seems as though it would dream on for ever.
— Elizabeth Von Arnim
..all forms of needlework of the fancy order are inventions of the evil one for keeping the foolish from applying their hearts to wisdom.
— Elizabeth Von Arnim
Guests can be, and often are, delightful, but they should never be allowed to get the upper hand.
— Elizabeth Von Arnim
They left off talking. They ceased to mention heaven. They were just cups of acceptance.
— Elizabeth Von Arnim
What a blessing it is to love books.
— Elizabeth Von Arnim
Well, I for one am unable to imagine how anybody who lives with an intelligent and devoted dog can every be lonely.
— Elizabeth Von Arnim
It is beautiful, beautiful to give; one of the very most beautiful things in life.
— Elizabeth Von Arnim
Why, it would really be being unselfish to go away and be happy for a little, because we would come back so much nicer.
— Elizabeth Von Arnim
This radiant weather, when mere living is a joy, and sitting still over the fire out of the question, has been going on for more than a week.
— Elizabeth Von Arnim
In bed by herself: adorable condition.
— Elizabeth Von Arnim
How they had dreamed together, he and she ... how they had planned, and laughed, and loved. They had lived for a while in the very heart of poetry.
— Elizabeth Von Arnim
Reading was very important; the proper exercise and development of one's mind was a paramount duty.
— Elizabeth Von Arnim
What fun it all was, she thought, and how entirely new and delicious being taken care of as though she were a thing that mattered, a precious thing!
— Elizabeth Von Arnim
Beauty made you love, and love made you beautiful.
— Elizabeth Von Arnim
Home is the best place when life begins to wobble.
— Elizabeth Von Arnim
Upon my word," thought Mrs. Fisher, "the way one pretty face can turn a delightful man into an idiot is past all patience.
— Elizabeth Von Arnim
... -- the periwinkles looked exactly as if they were being poured down each side of the steps -- ...
— Elizabeth Von Arnim
if one were efficient one wouldn't be depressed, and that if one does one's job well one becomes automatically bright and brisk.
— Elizabeth Von Arnim
How glad I am I need not hurry. What a waste of life, just getting and spending.
— Elizabeth Von Arnim
Who can begin conventional amiability the first thing in the morning?
— Elizabeth Von Arnim
I'm so glad I didn't die on the various occasions I have earnestly wished I might, for I would have missed a lot of lovely weather.
— Elizabeth Von Arnim
There is nothing so absolutely bracing for the soul as the frequent turning of one's back on duties.
— Elizabeth Von Arnim
He had the effect on her of a window being thrown open and fresh air and sunlight being let in
— Elizabeth Von Arnim
I was for ever making plans, and if nothing came of them, what did it matter? The mere making had been a joy.
— Elizabeth Von Arnim
Always being there was the essential secret for a wife.
— Elizabeth Von Arnim
It was a place to bless God in and cease from vain words.
— Elizabeth Von Arnim
Submission to what people call their 'lot' is simply ignoble. If your lot makes you cry and be wretched, get rid of it and take another.
— Elizabeth Von Arnim
But it is impossible, I find, to tidy books without ending by sitting on the floor in the middle of a great untidiness and reading.
— Elizabeth Von Arnim
But it's fun being alive, isn't it? I feel as if I'd only got to stretch up my hands to all those stars and catch as many of them as I want to.
— Elizabeth Von Arnim
Now she had taken off her goodness and left it behind her like a heap of rain-sodden clothes, and she only felt joy.
— Elizabeth Von Arnim
I's lonely to stay inside oneself.
— Elizabeth Von Arnim
The very feel of her hand, even through its glove, was reassuring; it was the sort of hand, he thought, that children would like to hold in the dark.
— Elizabeth Von Arnim
I wish,' said Rose anxiously, 'I understood you.' 'Don't try,' said Lotty, smiling.
'But I must, because I love you. — Elizabeth Von Arnim
Worse than jokes in the morning did she hate the idea of a husband.
— Elizabeth Von Arnim
