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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.
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Marie Laurencin.
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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.
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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.
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Ah but' 'there'll be no butter in hell!
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This may not be much, but it is something. Tomorrow we die; but at least we danced in silver shoes.
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Surely she had endured enough for one evening without having to listen to intelligent conversation?
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Happiness can never hope to command so much interest as distress.
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Flora inherited, however, from her father a strong will and from her mother a slender ankle.
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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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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
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.
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I saw something nasty in the woodshed.
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There have always been Starkadders at Cold Comfort Farm
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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
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Nature is all very well in her place, but she must not be allowed to make things untidy.
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An interesting survival of mediaeval superstition," commented Flora.
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Curious how Love destroys every vestige of that politeness which the human race, in its years of evolution, has so painfully acquired.
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Like all really strong-minded women, on whom everybody flops, she adored being bossed about. It was so restful.
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Mrs Poste, who had wished people to live beautiful lives and yet be ladies and gentlemen.
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A straight nose is a great help if one wishes to look serious'.
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She liked Victorian novels. They were the only kind of novel you could read while eating an apple.
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The Abbe's warning: 'Never confront an enemy at the end of a journey, unless it happens to be his journey'.
— Stella Gibbons
