Beverley Nichols Quotes
Marriage is a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.
We both know, you and I, that if all men were gardeners, the world at last would be at peace.
Every moment of this strange and lovely life from dawn to dusk, is a miracle. Somewhere, always a rose is opening its petals to the dawn. Somewhere, always, a flower is fading in the dusk.
To dig one's own spade into one's own earth! Has life anything better to offer than this?
Let us be honest: most of us rather like our cats to have a streak of wickedness. I should not feel quite easy in the company of any cat that walked around the house with a saintly expression.
A garden is a place for shaping a little world of your own according to your heart's desire.
Do you ever find yourself bursting into a sort of lunatic laughter at the sheer prettiness of things?
A garden without cats, it will be generally agreed, can scarcely deserve to be called a garden at all.
Well, I love geraniums, and anybody who does not love geraniums must obviously be a depraved and loathsome person.
As any psychologist will tell you, the worst thing you can possibly do to a woman is to deprive her of a grievance.
It is only to the gardener that time is a friend, giving each year more than he steals.
The seed of a blue lupin will usually produce a blue lupin. But the seed of a blue-eyed man may produce a brown-eyed bore...especially if his wife has a taste for gigolos.
I think it is silly to be amateur about anything when one has an opportunity of learning.
Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.