36 Quotes by Jan Struther

It’s as important to marry the right life as it is the right person.

In childhood the daylight always fails too soon – except when there are going to be fireworks;.

To be put down in this world, and given only eighty years to get to know it in, is like being let loose in the United States of America for the first time with a high-powered car and unlimited gasoline – but with a visa that is valid for only a week. It’s agonizing, that’s what it is.

Constructive destruction is one of the most delightful employments in the world, and in civilized life the opportunities for it are only too rare.

Giving a party is like having a baby: its conception is more fun than its completion; and once you have begun it, it is almost impossible to stop.

The importance of the ordinary citizen is very greatly underestimated – not so much by those in authority as by the ordinary citizen himself.

O love’s a simple word to sayWith nature aiding and abetting.

Private opinion creates public opinion. Public opinion overflows eventually into national behavior as things are arranged at present, can make or mar the world. That is why private opinion, and private behavior, and private conversation are so terrifyingly important.

And I am a mockery, who was God before.