Jan Struther Quotes - Page 2

• To visit a new country for the first time is great fun; but it is even greater fun to introduce somebody else to a country that you know.

  Jan Struther

  Country, Travel, Fun

  Jan Struther (1956). “A pocketful of pebbles”

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• And I am a mockery, who was God before.

  Jan Struther

  Burla

  Jan Struther, “Age”

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• how much of the fun of parenthood lay in watching the children remake, with delighted wonder, one's own discoveries.

  Jan Struther

  Children, Fun, Discovery

  Jan Struther (1940). “Mrs. Miniver”

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• It seemed to her sometimes that the most important thing about marriage was not a home or children or a remedy against sin, but simply there being always an eye to catch.

  Jan Struther

  Children, Home, Eye

  Jan Struther (1942). “Mrs. Miniver”, p.13, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Que te metan en este mundo y sólo te den ochenta años para conocerlo es como si te soltaran por primera vez en los Estados Unidos de América con un coche de alta cilindrada y gasolina ilimitada, pero con un visado que sólo es válido para una semana. Es agonizante, eso es lo que es.

  Jan Struther

  Life, Time, Years

  Jan Struther (1946). “A Pocket Full of Pebbles”

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• Words were the only net to catch a mood, the only sure weapon against oblivion.

  Jan Struther

  Weapons, Oblivion, Mood

  Jan Struther (1940). “Mrs. Miniver”

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• Ahora estallaba uno, una delicada constelación de estrellas multicolores que descendía y permanecía en el aire quieto .... El último cohete se elevó, uno realmente grande, una pieza de temeraria extravagancia. Su sibilante estallido fue impresionante, como el de un dragón; se elevó el doble de alto que cualquiera de los anteriores.... Las chispas del cohete descendieron por el cielo en una lenta cascada dorada, desvaneciéndose una a una en un lago de oscuridad.

  Jan Struther

  Stars, Lakes, Air

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• When there is a world scarcity of any commodity, whether it's food or free speech, then the whole world must go on rations in order that eventually the whole world may have it again in plenty.

  Jan Struther

  Order, Speech, Scarcity

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• O love's a simple word to sayWith nature aiding and abetting

  Jan Struther

  Simple, Simple Words

  Jan Struther, “London Lovers”

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• there is practically no difference at all between a family and a nation, except the difference in size. A family is a nation seen through the wrong end of a telescope; a nation is a family seen through the right end of a telescope, and I don't believe it is possible to achieve a happy and successful family life, or a happy and successful national life, unless we bear this simple fact in mind and behave accordingly.

  Jan Struther

  Family, Believe, Successful

  Jan Struther (1956). “A pocketful of pebbles”

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• She saw every personal religion as a pair of intersecting circles. . . . Probably perfection is reached when the area of the two outer crescents, added together, is exactly equal to that of the leaf-shaped piece in the middle. On paper there must be some neat mathematical formula for arriving at this; in life, none.

  Jan Struther

  Women, Circles, Two

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