Esther Meynell Quotes

United Kingdom, Writer
1878 – February, 4, 1955.

Esther Hallam Meynell née Moorhouse was an English writer. Meynell was born in Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire. Her father was Samuel Moorhouse. She married Gerard Tuke Meynell and was the niece by marriage of the poet and suffragist Alice Meynell. She died in Ditchling, a village near Brighton, Sussex.

A horse, if he happens to have a contemptuous disposition, can sneer very effectively.

Esther Meynell
- Horse
- Disposition
- Sneer
Always, our eyes look backwards with the conviction that then, and not now, was the golden age.

Esther Meynell

It is only after a fair portion of one's life that one really knows what are the things that matter, the things that will remain until the end.

Esther Meynell
- Knows
- Fair
- Remain
It is so often the odd, the unexpected, the apparently trifling, that stamps itself upon the memory for ever, while much more memorable things pass away like a breath of wind.

Esther Meynell
- Wind
- Memory
- Stamps
There is nothing in nature quite so joyful as the very young and silly lamb - odd that it should develop into that dull and sober animal the sheep.

Esther Meynell
- Nature
- Animal
- Develop
Youthful days are longer than those of later years, as we all learn as we grow older.

Esther Meynell
- Years
- Learn
- Days
Country things are the necessary root of our life - and that remains true even of a rootless and tragically urban civilization. To live permanently away from the country is a form of slow death.

Esther Meynell
Books, to the reading child, are so much more than books-they are dreams and knowledge, they are a future, and a past.

Esther Meynell
- Knowledge
- Child
- Dreams

A garden has a curious innocent way of consuming cash while all the time you are under the illusion that you are spending nothing.

Esther Meynell
- Innocent
- Illusion
- Cash