Happiness can never hope to command so much interest as distress. Stella Gibbons More Quotes by Stella Gibbons More Quotes From Stella Gibbons One of the disadvantages of almost universal education was the fact that all kinds of persons acquired a familiarity with one's favorite writers. It gave one a curious feeling; it was like seeing a drunken stranger wrapped in one's dressing gown. Stella Gibbons gowns feelings facts 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 first-love doe years Like all really strong-minded women, on whom everybody flops, she adored being bossed about. It was so restful. Stella Gibbons cold-comfort-farm strong-minded strong Surely she had endured enough for one evening without having to listen to intelligent conversation? Stella Gibbons evening intelligent enough Curious how Love destroys every vestige of that politeness which the human race, in its years of evolution, has so painfully acquired. Stella Gibbons evolution race years I do not object to the phenomena, but I do object to the parrot. Stella Gibbons cold-comfort-farm parrots objects She liked Victorian novels. They were the only kind of novel you could read while eating an apple. Stella Gibbons apples kind eating Well,' said Mrs Smiling, 'it sounds an appalling place, but in a different way from all the others. I mean, it does sound interesting and appalling, while the others just sound appalling. Stella Gibbons sound mean interesting Dawn crept over the Downs like a sinister white animal, followed by the snarling cries of a wind eating its way between the black boughs of the thorns. The wind was the furious voice of this sluggish animal light that was baring the dormers and mullions and scullions of Cold Comfort Farm. Stella Gibbons voice animal wind Well, when I am fifty-three or so I would like to write a novel as good as Persuasion but with a modern setting, of course. For the next thirty years or so I shall be collecting material for it. If anyone asks me what I work at, I shall say, 'Collecting material'. No one can object to that. Stella Gibbons three writing years A straight nose is a great help if one wishes to look serious'. Stella Gibbons noses wish looks The life of a journalist is poor, nasty, brutish, and short. So is his style Stella Gibbons style nasty poor The education bestowed on Flora Poste by her parents had been expensive, athletic and prolonged; and when they died within a few weeks of one another during the annual epidemic of the influenza or Spanish Plague which occurred in her twentieth year, she was discovered to possess every art and grace save that of earning her own living. Stella Gibbons epidemics years art And when April like an over-lustful lover leaped upon the lush flanks of the Downs there would be yet another child in the wretched hut down on Nettle Flitch Field, where Meriam housed the fruits of her shame. Stella Gibbons fruit would-be children Nature is all very well in her place, but she must not be allowed to make things untidy. Stella Gibbons cold-comfort-farm wells 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 rich novelists emotional I saw something nasty in the woodshed. Stella Gibbons cold-comfort-farm saws nasty You have the most revolting Florence Nightingale complex,' said Mrs. Smiling. It is not that at all, and well you know it. On the whole, I dislike my fellow beings; I find them so difficult to understand. But I have a tidy mind and untidy lives irritate me. Also, they are uncivilized. Stella Gibbons florence-nightingale mind said 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 tortoises pet might Women are all alike - aye fussin' over their fal-lals and bedazin' a man's eyes, when all they really want is man's blood and his heart out of his body and his soul and his pride. Stella Gibbons eye pride heart
