45 Quotes by Beverley Nichols

One of the many reasons why gardens are increasingly precious to us in this day and age is that they help us to escape from the tyranny of speed. Our skies are streaked with jets, our roads have turned to race-tracks, and in the cities the crowds rush to and fro as though the devil were at their heels. But as soon as we open the garden gate, Time seems almost to stand still, slowing down to the gentle ticking of the Clock of the Universe.

On and on we wander in these pages--and we never reach the point because, happily, there is no point to reach.

Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.

To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat.

It is only to the gardener that time is a friend, giving each year more than he steals.

As any psychologist will tell you, the worst thing you can possibly do to a woman is to deprive her of a grievance.

A gardener is never shut out from his garden, wherever he may be. Its comfort never fails. Though the city may close about him, and the grime and soot descend upon him, he can still wander in his garden, does he but close his eyes.

The Oldfields of the future are beyond hearing; they are shut up in the factories and the workshops, leading a rackety and mechanical existence, to the damage of their bodies and the peril of their souls, for the sake of an extra pound or so a week, which they promptly spend on mental or physical narcotics.

Well, I love geraniums, and anybody who does not love geraniums must obviously be a depraved and loathsome person.