You can lock up from a thief, but you can't from a liar. Flora Thompson More Quotes by Flora Thompson More Quotes From Flora Thompson I do not compare the past with the present without a prejudice for either, but, great as the improvement in country life is in many respects, it seems a pity the old cheap, wholesome dishes have gone to make way for tinned and preserved foods. Flora Thompson prejudice country past Any artwork needs time and patience and needs above a quiet mind. Flora Thompson mind quiet needs The luxuries of the few were becoming necessities of the many. Flora Thompson luxury becoming Strict honesty was the policy of most of them; although there were a few who were said to 'find anything before 'tis lost' and to whom findings were keepings. Flora Thompson honesty said lost What greater restoratives have we poor mortals than a good meal taken in the company of loving friends? Flora Thompson loving-friends meals taken Alas! in nature, as in art, we gain only according to our capacity. You cannot put an ocean in a pint pot. Flora Thompson gains ocean art What is charm, it is not a moral quality, it is not intellectual for no man by much thinking is able to add a grain of it to his personality. One either has it or has it not, it cannot be acquired or even cultivated. It is not physical even, it seems to be added to the human personality, an aura, a glow, the gold dust upon a butterfly's wing, the bloom upon a peach. Flora Thompson butterfly men thinking Unlike most great talkers, the rooks are good workers, too. Flora Thompson talkers good-work workers It is the fashion to talk of our changing climate and bewail the hot summers and hard winters of tradition, but how seldom we pause to marvel at the remarkable constancy of the weather from year to year. Flora Thompson fashion summer winter