Cold Comfort Farm Quotes

• I saw something nasty in the woodshed.

  Stella Gibbons

  Saws, Nasty

  Cold Comfort Farm ch. 10 (1932)

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• There have always been Starkadders at Cold Comfort Farm

  Stella Gibbons

  Comfort, Cold, Farms

  Stella Gibbons (1977). "Cold comfort farm", Penguin (No Clásicos)

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• She liked Victorian novels. They were the only kind of novel you could read while eating an apple.

  Stella Gibbons

  Apples, Kind, Eating

  Stella Gibbons (1977). "Cold comfort farm", Penguin (No Clásicos)

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• The education bestowed on Flora Poste by her parents had been expensive, athletic and prolonged; and when they died within a few weeks of one another during the annual epidemic of the influenza or Spanish Plague which occurred in her twentieth year, she was discovered to possess every art and grace save that of earning her own living.

  Stella Gibbons

  Art, Epidemics, Years

  Stella Gibbons (1977). "Cold comfort farm", Penguin (No Clásicos)

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• The life of a journalist is poor, nasty, brutish, and short. So is his style

  Stella Gibbons

  Style, Nasty, Poor

  1932 Cold Comfort Farm, foreword.

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• Era, reflexionó, casi rudamente como una tortuga; y se alegró de que su amiga no tuviera ninguna como mascota, pues de lo contrario podrían haber sospechado que se burlaban de ella.

  Stella Gibbons

  Mascotas, Poderosas, Tortugas

  Stella Gibbons (1977). "Cold comfort farm", Penguin (No Clásicos)

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• Nature is all very well in her place, but she must not be allowed to make things untidy.

  Stella Gibbons

  Pozos

  Stella Gibbons (1977). "Cold comfort farm", Penguin (No Clásicos)

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• Well, when I am fifty-three or so I would like to write a novel as good as Persuasion but with a modern setting, of course. For the next thirty years or so I shall be collecting material for it. If anyone asks me what I work at, I shall say, 'Collecting material'. No one can object to that.

  Stella Gibbons

  Escritura, Años, Tres

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• One of the disadvantages of almost universal education was the fact that all kinds of persons acquired a familiarity with one's favorite writers. It gave one a curious feeling; it was like seeing a drunken stranger wrapped in one's dressing gown.

  Stella Gibbons

  Feelings, Gowns, Facts

  Stella Gibbons (1977). "Cold comfort farm", Penguin (No Clásicos)

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• Happiness can never hope to command so much interest as distress.

  Stella Gibbons

  Introspection, Interest, Command

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• On the whole, Flora liked it better when they were silent, though it did rather give her the feeling that she was acting in one of the less cheerful German highbrow films.

  Stella Gibbons

  Giving, Feelings, Cheerful

  Stella Gibbons (1977). "Cold comfort farm", Penguin (No Clásicos)

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• Curious how Love destroys every vestige of that politeness which the human race, in its years of evolution, has so painfully acquired.

  Stella Gibbons

  Race, Years, Evolution

  Stella Gibbons (1977). "Cold comfort farm", Penguin (No Clásicos)

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• Women are all alike - aye fussin' over their fal-lals and bedazin' a man's eyes, when all they really want is man's blood and his heart out of his body and his soul and his pride.

  Stella Gibbons

  Corazón, Ojo, Orgullo

  Stella Gibbons (1977). "Cold comfort farm", Penguin (No Clásicos)

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• No me opongo al fenómeno, pero sí al loro.

  Stella Gibbons

  Parrots, Objects

  Stella Gibbons (1977). "Cold comfort farm", Penguin (No Clásicos)

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• Surely she had endured enough for one evening without having to listen to intelligent conversation?

  Stella Gibbons

  Intelligent, Evening, Enough

  Stella Gibbons (1977). "Cold comfort farm", Penguin (No Clásicos)

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• Flora suspiró. Resultaba curioso que las personas que vivían lo que los novelistas llamaban una vida rica en emociones parecieran siempre un poco lentas de reflejos.

  Stella Gibbons

  Emocional, Novelistas, Ricos

  Stella Gibbons (1977). "Cold comfort farm", Penguin (No Clásicos)

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• Well,' said Mrs Smiling, 'it sounds an appalling place, but in a different way from all the others. I mean, it does sound interesting and appalling, while the others just sound appalling.

  Stella Gibbons

  Mean, Interesting, Sound

  Stella Gibbons (1977). "Cold comfort farm", Penguin (No Clásicos)

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• Here was an occasion, she thought, for indulging in that deliberate rudeness which only persons with habitually good manners have the right to commit.

  Stella Gibbons

  Rudeness, Manners, Commit

  Stella Gibbons (1977). "Cold comfort farm", Penguin (No Clásicos)

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• Eso sería encantador", convino Flora, pensando en lo desagradable y aburrido que sería.

  Stella Gibbons

  Pensar, Sería, Desagradable

  Stella Gibbons (1977). "Cold comfort farm", Penguin (No Clásicos)

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• Tiene usted el más repugnante complejo Florence Nightingale -dijo la señora Sonriente-. No es eso en absoluto, y usted lo sabe muy bien. En general, me desagradan mis semejantes; me resultan tan difíciles de entender. Pero tengo una mente ordenada y las vidas desordenadas me irritan. Además, son incivilizados.

  Stella Gibbons

  Florence Nightingale, Mind, Said

  Stella Gibbons (1977). "Cold comfort farm", Penguin (No Clásicos)

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• Like all really strong-minded women, on whom everybody flops, she adored being bossed about. It was so restful.

  Stella Gibbons

  Strong, Strong Minded, Restful

  Stella Gibbons (1977). "Cold comfort farm", Penguin (No Clásicos)

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• A straight nose is a great help if one wishes to look serious'.

  Stella Gibbons

  Wish, Looks, Noses

  Stella Gibbons (1977). "Cold comfort farm", Penguin (No Clásicos)

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• There are some things (like first love and one’s first reviews) at which a woman in her middle years does not care to look too closely.

  Stella Gibbons

  First Love, Years, Doe

  Stella Gibbons (1977). "Cold comfort farm", Penguin (No Clásicos)

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• By god, DH Lawrence was right when he said there must be a dumb, dark, dull, bitter belly-tension between a man and a woman, and how else could this be achieved save in the long monotony of marriage?

  Stella Gibbons

  Dark, Men, Long

  'Cold Comfort Farm' (1932) ch. 20

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• Dawn crept over the Downs like a sinister white animal, followed by the snarling cries of a wind eating its way between the black boughs of the thorns. The wind was the furious voice of this sluggish animal light that was baring the dormers and mullions and scullions of Cold Comfort Farm.

  Stella Gibbons

  Animal, Wind, Voice

  Stella Gibbons (1977). "Cold comfort farm", Penguin (No Clásicos)

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