"You must remember garden catalogues are as big liars as house-agents."

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Source : Rumer Godden (1984). “China Court”

Rumer Godden

#Liars Quotes #Garden Quotes #House Quotes

“While most of today's jobs do not require great intelligence, they do require greater frustration tolerance, personal discipline,organization, management, and interpersonal skills than were required two decades and more ago. These are precisely the skills that many of the young people who are staying in school today, as opposed to two decades ago, lack.”
“Dear young people, let us not be satisfied with a mediocre life. Be amazed by what is true and beautiful, what is of God!”
“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.”

Source : Esther Meynell (1940). “A Woman Talking”, London, Chapman & Hall [1940.]
“It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.”
“Unfair in practice is not the same thing as wrong in principle, but sometimes it has to do.”
“A world government run by the UN will be like getting an old, purblind, half-deaf substitute teacher.”
“When Israel says that it will recognise Palestinian rights and will withdraw from the West Bank and East Jerusalem and grant the right of return, stop settlements and recognise the rights of the Palestinians to self-determination - only then will Hamas be ready to take a serious step.”

Source : Interview with Jeremy Bowen, news.bbc.co.uk. February 8, 2006.
“Sometimes before it gets better, the darkness gets bigger. The person that you'd take a bullet for is behind the trigger.”

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