Top 20 Angela Thirkell Quotes (2024 Update)

Angela Thirkell Quote: “Never economize on luxuries.”

1. “Never economize on luxuries.”

— Angela Thirkell

Angela Thirkell Quote: “There are few pleasures like really burrowing one’s nose into sweet peas.”

2. “There are few pleasures like really burrowing one’s nose into sweet peas.”

— Angela Thirkell

Angela Thirkell Quote: “Christmas, so long looming over everyone’s head, finally surged up, buried everyone alive and ebbed away, leaving its victims distinctly cross.”

3. “Christmas, so long looming over everyone’s head, finally surged up, buried everyone alive and ebbed away, leaving its victims distinctly cross.”

— Angela Thirkell

Angela Thirkell Quote: “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.”

4. “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

Angela Thirkell Quote: “If one cannot invent a really convincing lie, it is often better to stick to the truth.”

5. “If one cannot invent a really convincing lie, it is often better to stick to the truth.”

— Angela Thirkell

Angela Thirkell Quote: “First love is an astounding experience and if the object happens to be totally unworthy and love not really love at all, it makes little difference to the intensity of the pain.”

6. “First love is an astounding experience and if the object happens to be totally unworthy and love not really love at all, it makes little difference to the intensity of the pain.”

— Angela Thirkell

Angela Thirkell Quote: “Time is a very rum thing, as Shakespeare knew – ambling, trotting, galloping and sometimes standing still; though why he had to add “withal” to these interesting facts we cannot explain. Perhaps he could not explain either, but wrote whatever came into his head.”

7. “Time is a very rum thing, as Shakespeare knew – ambling, trotting, galloping and sometimes standing still; though why he had to add “withal” to these interesting facts we cannot explain. Perhaps he could not explain either, but wrote whatever came into his head.”

— Angela Thirkell

Angela Thirkell Quote: “At this moment the headmaster found Master Wesendonck’s tall pile of books slipping from his grasp. He juggled frantically with them for a moment and then, to the infinite joy of the boarders and day boys, they crashed to the ground in all directions. A bevy of form masters rushed forward to the rescue. Master Wesendonck, realising with immense presence of mind that his natural enemies were for once in their proper place, grovelling on the floor, stood still and did nothing.”

8. “At this moment the headmaster found Master Wesendonck’s tall pile of books slipping from his grasp. He juggled frantically with them for a moment and then, to the infinite joy of the boarders and day boys, they crashed to the ground in all directions. A bevy of form masters rushed forward to the rescue. Master Wesendonck, realising with immense presence of mind that his natural enemies were for once in their proper place, grovelling on the floor, stood still and did nothing.”

— Angela Thirkell

Angela Thirkell Quote: “If only life were one long crisis, everyone would be perfect.”

9. “If only life were one long crisis, everyone would be perfect.”

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Angela Thirkell Quote: “Early poems are a thing it takes years to live down.”

10. “Early poems are a thing it takes years to live down.”

— Angela Thirkell

Angela Thirkell Quote: “But human nature cannot be content on a diet of honey and if there is nothing in one’s life that requires pity, one must invent it; for to go through life unpitied would be an unthinkable loss.”

11. “But human nature cannot be content on a diet of honey and if there is nothing in one’s life that requires pity, one must invent it; for to go through life unpitied would be an unthinkable loss.”

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Angela Thirkell Quote: “People who say Jane or talk about Janeites revolt me. The sort that can walk with kings and not lose that common touch. ‘Miss Austen to you’ is what I feel inclined to say.”

12. “People who say Jane or talk about Janeites revolt me. The sort that can walk with kings and not lose that common touch. ‘Miss Austen to you’ is what I feel inclined to say.”

— Angela Thirkell

Angela Thirkell Quote: “How is Mrs. Rivers doing?′ asked the agent, a very tall and large man, well-dressed, bald and depressing, with a manner of gliding into his office from a side door without perceptibly moving his feet which had struck terror into many young writers and caused them to accept the lowest terms Mr. Hobb could offer.”

13. “How is Mrs. Rivers doing?′ asked the agent, a very tall and large man, well-dressed, bald and depressing, with a manner of gliding into his office from a side door without perceptibly moving his feet which had struck terror into many young writers and caused them to accept the lowest terms Mr. Hobb could offer.”

— Angela Thirkell

Angela Thirkell Quote: “Tell Aunt Louise to boil her head,” said Robin.”

14. “Tell Aunt Louise to boil her head,” said Robin.”

— Angela Thirkell

Angela Thirkell Quote: “Good,’ said Mr Carton. ‘Why children, a loathsome breed who should be kept under hatches or in monasteries till they have acquired some rudiments of manners and consideration for others, should be encouraged to think themselves of importance now, I do not know. The English as a race have always been sentimental about dogs, and draught horses in Italy where most of them have never been, but this wave of sentiment about children is a new and revolting outburst.”

15. “Good,’ said Mr Carton. ‘Why children, a loathsome breed who should be kept under hatches or in monasteries till they have acquired some rudiments of manners and consideration for others, should be encouraged to think themselves of importance now, I do not know. The English as a race have always been sentimental about dogs, and draught horses in Italy where most of them have never been, but this wave of sentiment about children is a new and revolting outburst.”

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Angela Thirkell Quote: “Henry, you mustn’t mind. It is really a kindness to have him.’ ‘Well, I do mind, Emily,’ said Mr Leslie, getting up. ‘Kindness is one thing and your family is another. You treat this house as if it were the Ark, Emily, inviting everyone in.’ ‘At least she doesn’t ask them in couples, sir,’ said David. ‘A female Holt would be appalling.’ ‘That’s enough,’ said his father. ‘If Mr Holt comes into this house, I go out of it.’ He took a cigar from the sideboard and went out, almost slamming the door.”

16. “Henry, you mustn’t mind. It is really a kindness to have him.’ ‘Well, I do mind, Emily,’ said Mr Leslie, getting up. ‘Kindness is one thing and your family is another. You treat this house as if it were the Ark, Emily, inviting everyone in.’ ‘At least she doesn’t ask them in couples, sir,’ said David. ‘A female Holt would be appalling.’ ‘That’s enough,’ said his father. ‘If Mr Holt comes into this house, I go out of it.’ He took a cigar from the sideboard and went out, almost slamming the door.”

— Angela Thirkell

Angela Thirkell Quote: “Now that,” said Mrs. Morland, up in arms for seeing things straight, “is just rubbish. There isn’t any good or bad taste about what books you read: it’s what you like or don’t like.”

17. “Now that,” said Mrs. Morland, up in arms for seeing things straight, “is just rubbish. There isn’t any good or bad taste about what books you read: it’s what you like or don’t like.”

— Angela Thirkell

Angela Thirkell Quote: “The great thing in life is not to be able to do things, because then they are always done for you.”

18. “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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Angela Thirkell Quote: “I suppose everybody has a mental picture of the days of the week, some seeing them as a circle, some as an endless line, and others again, for all I know, as triangles and cubes. Mine is a wavy line proceeding to infinity, dipping to Wednesday which is the colour of old silver dark with polishing and rising again to a pale gold Sunday. This day has a feeling in my picture of warmth and light breezes and sunshine and afternoons that stretch to infinity and mornings full of far-off bells.”

19. “I suppose everybody has a mental picture of the days of the week, some seeing them as a circle, some as an endless line, and others again, for all I know, as triangles and cubes. Mine is a wavy line proceeding to infinity, dipping to Wednesday which is the colour of old silver dark with polishing and rising again to a pale gold Sunday. This day has a feeling in my picture of warmth and light breezes and sunshine and afternoons that stretch to infinity and mornings full of far-off bells.”

— Angela Thirkell

Angela Thirkell Quote: “The Admiral had the intense pleasure of welcoming Bill and Tubby again as his guests when they returned from a cheerful violation of Norway’s highly un-neutral waters, with their rescued fellow-seamen; and when Mrs. Birkett heard that Bill had had the ocarina with him on that glorious occasion she felt that she had in no small measure contributed to the victory and the rescue and became quite bloated with pride. Two.”

20. “The Admiral had the intense pleasure of welcoming Bill and Tubby again as his guests when they returned from a cheerful violation of Norway’s highly un-neutral waters, with their rescued fellow-seamen; and when Mrs. Birkett heard that Bill had had the ocarina with him on that glorious occasion she felt that she had in no small measure contributed to the victory and the rescue and became quite bloated with pride. Two.”

— Angela Thirkell

Angela Thirkell Quote: “Like most healthy men he thought that any illness was death.”

21. “Like most healthy men he thought that any illness was death.”

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Angela Thirkell Quote: “I’m sorry to disturb you, madam,′ said Nurse, ‘but I thought I’d better speak to you. It’s about Miss Delia’s knickers’ she continued, after a glance at the Vicar and a rapid decision that his cloth protected him. ‘She really hasn’t a pair fit to wear...”

22. “I’m sorry to disturb you, madam,′ said Nurse, ‘but I thought I’d better speak to you. It’s about Miss Delia’s knickers’ she continued, after a glance at the Vicar and a rapid decision that his cloth protected him. ‘She really hasn’t a pair fit to wear...”

— Angela Thirkell

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