Angela Thirkell famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

If one cannot invent a really convincing lie, it is often better to stick to the truth.
-- Angela Thirkell

#Lying #Sticks #Invention
Never economize on luxuries.
-- Angela Thirkell

#Luxury
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

#Play #Joy #Heaven
Early poems are a thing it takes years to live down.
-- Angela Thirkell

#Years #Poetry
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

#Loss #Would Be #Honey
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

#Depressing #Thinking #Self
Christmas, so long looming over everyone's head, finally surged up, buried everyone alive and ebbed away, leaving its victims distinctly cross.
-- Angela Thirkell

#Christmas #Long #Leaving
It has been noticed that people who are not parents often have a peculiar fondness for children. This is sometimes attributed to a very beautiful nostalgia for a gift denied to them - dream-children, flowers that have only bloomed in imagination - but we think it is rather because they have not the faintest idea how dreadful children are.
-- Angela Thirkell

#Beautiful #Dream #Children
If only life were one long crisis, everyone would be perfect.
-- Angela Thirkell

#Long #Perfect #Would Be
The great thing in life is not to be able to do things, because then they are always done for you.
-- Angela Thirkell

#Done #Able #Life Is
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

#Love #Pain #Differences
There are few pleasures like really burrowing one's nose into sweet peas.
-- Angela Thirkell

#Sweet #Noses #Pleasure
I suppose everybody has a mental picture of the days of the week, some seeing them as a circle, some as an endless line, and others again, for all I know, as triangles and cubes. Mine is a wavy line proceeding to infinity, dipping to Wednesday which is the colour of old silver dark with polishing and rising again to a pale gold Sunday. This day has a feeling in my picture of warmth and light breezes and sunshine and afternoons that stretch to infinity and mornings full of far-off bells.
-- Angela Thirkell

#Morning #Sunday #Dark

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