89 Quotes About English-writer

Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are.

Give little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

When we build, let us think that we build for ever.

An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.

To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.

Christmas... is not an eternal event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart.

Country people give me more than writers, and country places than towns.

People and places are the source of my work, both in prose and verse-and this remark is not the truism it seems, for I do not distinguish as sharply between a place and a person as most people seem to do.

Real people are places to me as much as persons: I want to see them, as I want to see the places I am fond of, in all weathers and at all times of the year.