Top 33 Angela Thirkell Quotes
#2. The great thing in life is not to be able to do things, because then they are always done for you.
Angela Thirkell
#3. 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.
Angela Thirkell
#4. Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.
Franz Kafka
#5. The way you conquer fear is to feel it all the way, and then you'll find out that there's nothing there - it's just emotion.
Nick Nolte
#6. Movies and life become a little more symmetrical when you start asking for and looking for connections.
Josh Lucas
#7. Christmas, so long looming over everyone's head, finally surged up, buried everyone alive and ebbed away, leaving its victims distinctly cross.
Angela Thirkell
#8. It's the sad thing about entertainment, it's not always about who is the best.
Jake Roberts
#9. 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.
Angela Thirkell
#10. 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.
Angela Thirkell
#11. 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...
Angela Thirkell
#12. America has learned what our repressive and terrorist adversaries do not understand: that liberty without law is anarchy, liberty to defy law is rebellion, but liberty limited by law is the cornerstone of civilization.
David Jeremiah
#14. 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.
Angela Thirkell
#15. 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.
Angela Thirkell
#16. Just, harmonious, temperate as is the spirit of liberty, there is in the name and mere notion of it a vagueness so opposite to the definite clearness of the moral law ...
Augustus William Hare
#17. 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.
Angela Thirkell
#18. If one cannot invent a really convincing lie, it is often better to stick to the truth.
Angela Thirkell
#19. Genius unexecuted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.
Orison Swett Marden
#20. There are few pleasures like really burrowing one's nose into sweet peas.
Angela Thirkell
#21. 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.
Angela Thirkell
#22. Little jointed stringy things the shape of tadpoles drifted across his vision. He had to keep blinking his eyes to get rid of them, but soon they drifted back.
Elizabeth Taylor
#24. I grew up in baseball stadiums. It was my two brothers and baseball around me all the time. I knew nothing about film or acting or theater when I was young!
Stephanie Sigman
#25. I was dressed like Darth Vader. Vader was my man, even with the villainy. He wore all black and had a deep voice; he reminded me of my uncle. I had a cheap mask-cape combo, the kind available at any pharmacy during October.
Victor LaValle
#26. 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.
Angela Thirkell
#27. 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.
Angela Thirkell
#28. Of all work-schools, a good farm is probably the best for motor development.
G. Stanley Hall
#29. Each one of us can make a difference. Together we make change.
Barbara Mikulski
#30. 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.
Angela Thirkell
#31. Like most healthy men he thought that any illness was death
Angela Thirkell
#32. If only life were one long crisis, everyone would be perfect.
Angela Thirkell
#33. 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.
Angela Thirkell
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