Top 20 Angela Thirkell Quotes
#1. If one cannot invent a really convincing lie, it is often better to stick to the truth.
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#2. First love is an astounding experience and if the object happens to be totally unworthy and love not really love at all, it makes little difference to the intensity of the pain.
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#3. If only life were one long crisis, everyone would be perfect.
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#4. Like most healthy men he thought that any illness was death
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#5. Time is a very rum thing, as Shakespeare knew--ambling, trotting, galloping and sometimes standing still; though why he had to add "withal" to these interesting facts we cannot explain. Perhaps he could not explain either, but wrote whatever came into his head.
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#6. I have been very, very happy. Mamma always said that even if there wasn't any happiness one must try to be happy without it.
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#7. and Bill broke a cheerful silence for the first time to say he wished he hadn't lost his ocarina with his kit, because he had never had a better one.
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#9. What does Mrs Preston want to go abroad for?' asked Mr Leslie.
'I think her doctor wanted her to, Father,' said Agnes.
'Doctors!' said Mr Leslie, wiping the whole of the Royal College of Physicians off the face of the world with this withering remark.
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#10. There are few pleasures like really burrowing one's nose into sweet peas.
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#11. The Knox family were all there, as neither George's Catholicism nor his Presbyterianism prevented him from supporting the vicar, who was a great friend.
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#12. The great thing in life is not to be able to do things, because then they are always done for you.
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#13. If there is one pleasure on earth which surpasses all others, it is leaving a play before the end. I might perhaps except the joy of taking tickets for a play, dining well, sitting on after dinner, and finally not going at all. That, of course, is very heaven.
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#14. Christmas, so long looming over everyone's head, finally surged up, buried everyone alive and ebbed away, leaving its victims distinctly cross.
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#15. But human nature cannot be content on a diet of honey and if there is nothing in one's life that requires pity, one must invent it; for to go through life unpitied would be an unthinkable loss.
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#17. I'm sorry to disturb you, madam,' said Nurse, 'but I thought I'd better speak to you. It's about Miss Delia's knickers' she continued, after a glance at the Vicar and a rapid decision that his cloth protected him. 'She really hasn't a pair fit to wear...
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#18. In that flash of ecstasy she suddenly knew what all poetry, all music, all sculpture, except things like winged Assyrian Bulls, or the very broken pieces in the British museum, meant.
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#19. People who say Jane or talk about Janeites revolt me. The sort that can walk with kings and not lose that common touch. 'Miss Austen to you' is what I feel inclined to say.
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#20. It is rather depressing to think that one will still be oneself when one is dead, but I dare say one won't be so critical then.
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