64 Quotes by Stella Gibbons

Flora inherited, however, from her father a strong will and from her mother a slender ankle.

Mrs Poste, who had wished people to live beautiful lives and yet be ladies and gentlemen.

Cautious as a camera-man engaged in shooting a family of fourteen lions

Don't fuss, Mary. I will write the letters tomorrow, before lunch. I would write them tonight, only I think we ought to dine out - don't you? - to celebrate the inauguration of my career as a parasite.

She liked Victorian novels. They were the only kind of novel you could read while eating an apple.

Curious how Love destroys every vestige of that politeness which the human race, in its years of evolution, has so painfully acquired.

I saw something nasty in the woodshed.

Like all really strong-minded women, on whom everybody flops, she adored being bossed about. It was so restful.

The life of a journalist is poor, nasty, brutish, and short. So is his style.