Esther Meynell Quotes

#1. It is only after a fair portion of one's life that one really knows what are the things that matter, the things that will remain until the end.

Esther Meynell

#2. A garden has a curious innocent way of consuming cash while all the time you are under the illusion that you are spending nothing.

Esther Meynell

#3. A horse, if he happens to have a contemptuous disposition, can sneer very effectively.

Esther Meynell

#4. It is so often the odd, the unexpected, the apparently trifling, that stamps itself upon the memory for ever, while much more memorable things pass away like a breath of wind.

Esther Meynell

#5. Youthful days are longer than those of later years, as we all learn as we grow older ...

Esther Meynell

#6. Country things are the necessary root of our life - and that remains true even of a rootless and tragically urban civilization. To live permanently away from the country is a form of slow death.

Esther Meynell

#7. Books, to the reading child, are so much more than books-they are dreams and knowledge, they are a future, and a past.

Esther Meynell

#8. Always, our eyes look backwards with the conviction that then, and not now, was the golden age.

Esther Meynell

#9. There is nothing in nature quite so joyful as the very young and silly lamb - odd that it should develop into that dull and sober animal the sheep.

Esther Meynell