Angela Thirkell Quotes
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Never economize on luxuries.
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The great thing in life is not to be able to do things, because then they are always done for you.
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There are few pleasures like really burrowing one's nose into sweet peas.
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If only life were one long crisis, everyone would be perfect.
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Early poems are a thing it takes years to live down.
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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.
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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.
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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.