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One need not write in a diary what one is to remember for ever.
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
I am surrounded by counselors. My sister is a counselor. My daughter is training to be a counselor. A lot of my friends are counselors.
— Sue Townsend
The birds can fly, An' why can't I?
— John Townsend Trowbridge
I seem to use this word 'kind' very frequently. When one is unhappy or anxious it is a quality one dwells on.
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.
— Lynn Townsend White Jr.
I'm spectacularly disorganised. I wrote my latest book in seven different notebooks scattered throughout my house.
— Sue Townsend
Love is the only real patriation, and without one's dear one sits in a dreary and boring exile.
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
Sneezes ... always sound much louder to the sneezer than to the hearers. It is an acoustical peculiarity.
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
Cooking is the most succulent of human pleasures.
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
We are the rich. We own America. We got it God knows how, but we intend to keep it.
— Frederick Townsend Martin
In real life I can play guitar, sure, but badly.
— Stuart Townsend
We were created to make the impossible possible.
— Vista Townsend
Possessiveness cannot accept; it cannot even strike a fair bargain; it has to confer.
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
All encounters with children are touched with social embarrassment.
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
Inflation is the senility of democracies.
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
If UEFA will not embrace video technology, then we need two more officials behind the goals to help the referee.
— Andy Townsend
No one wants to be praised for possibilities when one has submitted performances.
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
But what are wishes, compared with longings?
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
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[On an anarchist acquaintance:] Everything in appearance the most alarmist aunt could wish.
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
Fabio Capello needs to nail his hammers to the mast.
— Andy Townsend
Acting is great. You spend your whole life trying to get it right.
— Stuart Townsend
The tears of the young who go their way, last a day; But the grief is long of the old who stay.
— John Townsend Trowbridge
If war should break out between England and Japan, the latter would suffer much more than the former.
— Townsend Harris
We do not wish to open your ports to foreign trade all at once.
— Townsend Harris
The greatest missionary is the Bible in the mother tongue. It needs no furlough and is never considered a foreigner.
— William Cameron Townsend
General de Gaulle is again pictured in our newspapers, looking as usual like an embattled codfish.
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
The nations of the West hope that by means of steam communication all the world will become as one family.
— Townsend Harris
I wish I could be a grandmother. It is wanton extravagance to have had a youth with no one to tell of it to when one grows old.
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
I'd love a day devoid of responsibilities. I've often thought about going to a hotel just to have a day away from everything.
— Sue Townsend
Anticipation of pleasure is a pleasure in itself.
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
Of all damnable offenses preaching prudence to the young is the most damnable.
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
I wasn't educated. I was very lucky.
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
In case of war, a treaty would have to be made at the end of the war.
— Townsend Harris
Kate, like many other people, found herself a fascinating topic, and when encouraged was very willing to hold forth.
— John Rowe Townsend
Will you lie to me and promise to read them? Books need to be read. The pages need to be turned.
— Sue Townsend
Total grief is like a minefield. No knowing when one will touch the tripwire.
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
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— Tom Townsend
The fatal flaw of gravity; when you are down, everything falls down on you.
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
The United States have no possessions in the east and do not desire to have any, as other countries do.
— Townsend Harris
The monarchy is finished. It was finished a while ago, but they're still making the corpses dance.
— Sue Townsend
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Poor Jesus, it must have been dead awful for him. I wouldn't have the guts to do it myself. — Sue Townsend
Soberity makes me write dull songs about reorganizing the knick knacks in my house.
— Devin Townsend
Wealth, if not a mere flash in the pan, compels the wealthy to become wealthier.
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
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[John Craske] painted like a man giving witness under oath to a wild story.
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
One cannot revoke a true happiness.
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
An idea's worth is directly proportional to the opposition created.
— Robert Townsend
My skin is dead good. I think it must be a combination of being in love and Lucozade.
— Sue Townsend
The President of the United States thinks that for the Japanese opium is more dangerous than war.
— Townsend Harris
We know there is a problem with communication but we are not going to discuss it in front of the entire staff.
— Robert Townsend
Elizabeth ... had the prerogative of the rich that she could be generous with large sums and niggardly over small ones ...
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
A leader is not an administrator who loves to run others, but someone who carries water for his people so that they can get on with their jobs.
— Robert Townsend
My blood ran with this ink...
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
History is a means of access to ourselves.
— Lynn Townsend White Jr.
You'd better close those lips before I'm tempted to kiss them and really give you something to be all hot and bothered about.
— M. Leighton
Our days, our deeds, all we achieve or are, Lay folded in our infancy; the things Of good or ill we choose while yet unborn.
— John Townsend Trowbridge
With years a richer life begins, the spirit mellow: ripe age gives tones to violins, wine, and good fellows.
— John Townsend Trowbridge
Rather than being about money or material possessions as such, poverty is about the inability to participate actively in society.
— Peter Townsend
Chicharito must have icicles flowing through his veins
— Andy Townsend
Love is the only thing that keeps me sane ...
— Sue Townsend
There's only one thing more boring than listening to other people's dreams, and that's listening to their problems.
— Sue Townsend
What's the most important quality a person could have, something that would benefit us all?
— Sue Townsend
Peter Townsend Music is the silence between the notes.. So could it be said that dance is the stillness between the steps?
— Claude Debussy
The birds can fly, an' why can't I? Must we give in, says he with a grin, That the bluebird an' phoebe are smarter 'n we be?
— John Townsend Trowbridge
I have decided to keep a full journal, in the hope that my life will perhaps seem more interesting when it is written down.
— Sue Townsend
Every time I start a new piece of work, I spend a long while under the duvet thinking I can't do it.
— Sue Townsend
The past in the hands of historians is not what it was.
— Lynn Townsend White Jr.
Knowledge Qf history frees us to be contemporary.
— Lynn Townsend White Jr.
It was not I who was teaching my cat to gather rosebuds, but she who was teaching me.
— Irving Townsend
Children driven good are apt to be driven mad.
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
Reason is a poor hand at prophecies.
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
Barry Kent's father looks like a big ape and has got more hair on the back of his hands than my father has got on his entire head.
— Sue Townsend
The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.
— Robert Townsend
For me the diamond dawns are set In rings of beauty ...
— John Townsend Trowbridge
It appears that the English think the Japanese ... are fond of opium, and they want to bring it here also.
— Townsend Harris
My cream and black Aga. It is the heart of the house, and people congregate around it.
— Sue Townsend
For the last six weeks I have found myself pestered by some characters in search of an author ...
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
When the German propaganda tries to be winsome it is like a clown with homicidal mania - ludicrous and terrifying both at once.
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
Actors want to be told what to do - they really do. But they also want to have an input and be recognized for that.
— Stuart Townsend
The Church has lost a great religious poet in me; but I have lost an infinity of fun in the church, so the loss is even.
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
I take life very seriously. I can laugh at it, because what else can you do? But it's a hard daily battle.
— Sue Townsend
She was heavier than he expected - women always are.
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
She had always been comforted by confectionery
— Sue Townsend
You are only young once. At the time it seems endless, and is gone in a flash; and then for a very long time you are old.
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
I always feel as if I'm a disappointment: that people want a grand dame in furs like Barbara Taylor Bradford.
— Sue Townsend
Love amazes, but it does not surprise.
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
Since the invention of steamships distant countries have become like those that are near at hand.
— Townsend Harris
