That image of the countryside being a threatening place still exists. People continue to resist the challenge of learning about aspects of life they don't understand.

They may turn out to be a great disappointment, or perhaps they may be full of enchanting surprises.

Twenty years ago, I was living in a lovely cottage on the edge of Dartmoor but I couldn't afford to run a car.

Unimaginative people are spared quite a lot. They're often much happier, because they don't go through all the variety of conceptions of the person they love.

I always read that men don't like intelligent girls, but I've always found the reverse.

People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier.

Rebecca is an example of how not to manage men. The rules of the game never change, it requires subtlety.

I was sent to a finishing school, which didn't last long when mother found out how badly chaperoned we were. Then I 'came out' before going to a domestic science school.

Unimaginative people are spared quite a lot.

I have a garden, and I'm passionately interested in young people.

My father was a soldier and my mother was a great mover. She once counted up how many places she had lived in during the first 25 years of her marriage and it came to 20.

She no longer believed in talk. It never rescued anything.

The man who can sing when he hasn't got a thing, he's the king of the whole wide world.

Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.

There are many things we can live without but a sense of humor is not one of them!

No one touches me when I write my story, unless I hire you to or I allow you to.

Takes a long time to happen so fast... To realize that your future is somebody else's past

If God is sovereign, then it is impossible for civil government to be neutral on issues of law. All law is based in some religious code.

The plough is to the farmer what the wand is to the sorcerer. Its effect is really like sorcery.

They say best men are molded out of faults, And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad