Stella Gibbons Quotes: top 34 famous quotes about Stella Gibbons

Stella Gibbons Quotes & Sayings

Happy to read and share the best inspirational Stella Gibbons quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.

But she had a lively acquaintaince with confinement through the works of women novelists, especially those of the unmarried ones. — Stella Gibbons

Haven't you enough money?'
For she knew that this is what is the matter with nearly everybody over twenty-five. — Stella Gibbons

That would be delightful,' agreed Flora, thinking how nasty and boring it would be. — Stella Gibbons

Where are you flying off to?' inquired Viola, rather sulkily; few sights are more annoying when we feel lazy than that of somebody bounding upstairs. — Stella Gibbons

Marie Laurencin. — Stella Gibbons

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. — Stella Gibbons

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. — Stella Gibbons

Ah but' 'there'll be no butter in hell! — Stella Gibbons

The life of a journalist is poor, nasty, brutish, and short. So is his style — Stella Gibbons

This may not be much, but it is something. Tomorrow we die; but at least we danced in silver shoes. — Stella Gibbons

Surely she had endured enough for one evening without having to listen to intelligent conversation? — Stella Gibbons

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

Flora inherited, however, from her father a strong will and from her mother a slender ankle. — Stella Gibbons

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. — Stella Gibbons

Is there a rug?' she asked, hanging fire.
'Nay. The sins burnin' in yer marrow will keep yer warm. — Stella Gibbons

...though it was too true that life as she is lived has a way of being curiously different from life as described by novelists. — Stella Gibbons

My favorite book of all time is Cold Comfort Farm, by Stella Gibbons. — Meg Cabot

I do not object to the phenomena, but I do object to the parrot. — Stella Gibbons

There are some things (like first love and one's first reviews) at which a woman in her middle years does not care to look too closely. — Stella Gibbons

I saw something nasty in the woodshed. — Stella Gibbons

There have always been Starkadders at Cold Comfort Farm — Stella Gibbons

To tidy up takes time, and she wants all her time for wolfing books... — Stella Gibbons

What a pleasant life could be had in this world by a handsome, sensible old lady of good fortune, blessed with a sound constitution and a firm will — Stella Gibbons

Nature is all very well in her place, but she must not be allowed to make things untidy. — Stella Gibbons

An interesting survival of mediaeval superstition," commented Flora. — Stella Gibbons

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

Like all really strong-minded women, on whom everybody flops, she adored being bossed about. It was so restful. — Stella Gibbons

Mrs Poste, who had wished people to live beautiful lives and yet be ladies and gentlemen. — Stella Gibbons

A straight nose is a great help if one wishes to look serious'. — Stella Gibbons

She liked Victorian novels. They were the only kind of novel you could read while eating an apple. — Stella Gibbons

The Abbe's warning: 'Never confront an enemy at the end of a journey, unless it happens to be his journey'. — Stella Gibbons

He was enmeshed in his grief. He did not notice that Graceless's leg had come off and that she was managing as best she could with three. — Stella Gibbons

Cautious as a camera-man engaged in shooting a family of fourteen lions — Stella Gibbons

On the whole, Cold Comfort was not without its promise of mystery and excitement. — Stella Gibbons