Angela Thirkell Quotes

United Kingdom, Novelist
January 30, 1890 – January, 29, 1961.

Angela Margaret Thirkell, was an English and Australian novelist. She also published one novel, Trooper to Southern Cross, under the pseudonym Leslie Parker.

There are few pleasures like really burrowing one's nose into sweet peas.

Angela Thirkell
- Pleasures
- Peas
- Burrowing
Never economize on luxuries.

Angela Thirkell
- Luxuries
- Economize

The great thing in life is not to be able to do things, because then they are always done for you.

Angela Thirkell
- Life
- Thing
- To Do
If only life were one long crisis, everyone would be perfect.

Angela Thirkell
- Life
- Perfect
- Crisis
It has been noticed that people who are not parents often have a peculiar fondness for children. This is sometimes attributed to a very beautiful nostalgia for a gift denied to them - dream-children, flowers that have only bloomed in imagination - but we think it is rather because they have not the faintest idea how dreadful children are.

Angela Thirkell
Early poems are a thing it takes years to live down.

Angela Thirkell
- Live
- Years
- Poems
It is rather depressing to think that one will still be oneself when one is dead, but I dare say one won't be so critical then.

Angela Thirkell
- Dead
- Critical
- Oneself
If there is one pleasure on earth which surpasses all others, it is leaving a play before the end. I might perhaps except the joy of taking tickets for a play, dining well, sitting on after dinner, and finally not going at all. That, of course, is very heaven.

Angela Thirkell
- Play
- Heaven
- Pleasure