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Top 25 Beverley Nichols Quotes (2025 Update)

Beverley Nichols Quote: “A garden is a place for shaping a little world of your own according to your heart’s desire.”

1. “A garden is a place for shaping a little world of your own according to your heart’s desire.”

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Beverley Nichols Quote: “Every moment of this strange and lovely life from dawn to dusk, is a miracle. Somewhere, always a rose is opening its petals to the dawn. Somewhere, always, a flower is fading in the dusk.”

2. “Every moment of this strange and lovely life from dawn to dusk, is a miracle. Somewhere, always a rose is opening its petals to the dawn. Somewhere, always, a flower is fading in the dusk.”

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Beverley Nichols Quote: “To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat.”

3. “To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat.”

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Beverley Nichols Quote: “It is only to the gardener that time is a friend, giving each year more than he steals.”

4. “It is only to the gardener that time is a friend, giving each year more than he steals.”

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Beverley Nichols Quote: “A gardener is never shut out from his garden, wherever he may be. Its comfort never fails. Though the city may close about him, and the grime and soot descend upon him, he can still wander in his garden, does he but close his eyes.”

5. “A gardener is never shut out from his garden, wherever he may be. Its comfort never fails. Though the city may close about him, and the grime and soot descend upon him, he can still wander in his garden, does he but close his eyes.”

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Beverley Nichols Quote: “A garden without cats, it will be generally agreed, can scarcely deserve to be called a garden at all.”

6. “A garden without cats, it will be generally agreed, can scarcely deserve to be called a garden at all.”

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Beverley Nichols Quote: “As any psychologist will tell you, the worst thing you can possibly do to a woman is to deprive her of a grievance.”

7. “As any psychologist will tell you, the worst thing you can possibly do to a woman is to deprive her of a grievance.”

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Beverley Nichols Quote: “If these are the achievements of man, give me the achievements of geraniums.”

8. “If these are the achievements of man, give me the achievements of geraniums.”

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Beverley Nichols Quote: “Let us be honest: most of us rather like our cats to have a streak of wickedness. I should not feel quite easy in the company of any cat that walked around the house with a saintly expression.”

9. “Let us be honest: most of us rather like our cats to have a streak of wickedness. I should not feel quite easy in the company of any cat that walked around the house with a saintly expression.”

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Beverley Nichols Quote: “Marriage is a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.”

10. “Marriage is a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.”

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Beverley Nichols Quote: “To dig one’s own spade into one’s own earth! Has life anything better to offer than this?”

11. “To dig one’s own spade into one’s own earth! Has life anything better to offer than this?”

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Beverley Nichols Quote: “They came on one of April’s most brilliant days – a day as sparkling as a newly-washed lemon... a day when even the shadows were a melange of blue and orange and jade, like the shadows that poured from the tipsy brush of Monet.”

12. “They came on one of April’s most brilliant days – a day as sparkling as a newly-washed lemon... a day when even the shadows were a melange of blue and orange and jade, like the shadows that poured from the tipsy brush of Monet.”

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Beverley Nichols Quote: “The seed of a blue lupin will usually produce a blue lupin. But the seed of a blue-eyed man may produce a brown-eyed bore... especially if his wife has a taste for gigolos.”

13. “The seed of a blue lupin will usually produce a blue lupin. But the seed of a blue-eyed man may produce a brown-eyed bore... especially if his wife has a taste for gigolos.”

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Beverley Nichols Quote: “Do you ever find yourself bursting into a sort of lunatic laughter at the sheer prettiness of things?”

14. “Do you ever find yourself bursting into a sort of lunatic laughter at the sheer prettiness of things?”

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Beverley Nichols Quote: “Where the piano is, there is one’s treasure, as far as I am concerned... nothing, surely, is more delightful than sitting down at the piano on a summer day, and playing Chopin or Debussy while the natural sunlight drifts over one’s shoulders through the vines outside, creating a filigree of shadow in the printed page... a shifting pattern of ghostly leaf and blossom that dances to the mood of the music.”

15. “Where the piano is, there is one’s treasure, as far as I am concerned... nothing, surely, is more delightful than sitting down at the piano on a summer day, and playing Chopin or Debussy while the natural sunlight drifts over one’s shoulders through the vines outside, creating a filigree of shadow in the printed page... a shifting pattern of ghostly leaf and blossom that dances to the mood of the music.”

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Beverley Nichols Quote: “We both know, you and I, that if all men were gardeners, the world at last would be at peace.”

16. “We both know, you and I, that if all men were gardeners, the world at last would be at peace.”

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Beverley Nichols Quote: “One of the many reasons why gardens are increasingly precious to us in this day and age is that they help us to escape from the tyranny of speed. Our skies are streaked with jets, our roads have turned to race-tracks, and in the cities the crowds rush to and fro as though the devil were at their heels. But as soon as we open the garden gate, Time seems almost to stand still, slowing down to the gentle ticking of the Clock of the Universe.”

17. “One of the many reasons why gardens are increasingly precious to us in this day and age is that they help us to escape from the tyranny of speed. Our skies are streaked with jets, our roads have turned to race-tracks, and in the cities the crowds rush to and fro as though the devil were at their heels. But as soon as we open the garden gate, Time seems almost to stand still, slowing down to the gentle ticking of the Clock of the Universe.”

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Beverley Nichols Quote: “I think it is silly to be amateur about anything when one has an opportunity of learning.”

18. “I think it is silly to be amateur about anything when one has an opportunity of learning.”

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Beverley Nichols Quote: “It seemed to me that a great many fences had been put up all over the world, in the long course of history, that were not necessary. Fences round nations, fences round property. They were supposed to be symbols of security, but they were cheating symbols. They had a precisely opposite effect from that which was intended. They did not prevent crime, they incited it; they led not to peace but to war. A world without fences would be a better world.”

19. “It seemed to me that a great many fences had been put up all over the world, in the long course of history, that were not necessary. Fences round nations, fences round property. They were supposed to be symbols of security, but they were cheating symbols. They had a precisely opposite effect from that which was intended. They did not prevent crime, they incited it; they led not to peace but to war. A world without fences would be a better world.”

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Beverley Nichols Quote: “Well, I love geraniums, and anybody who does not love geraniums must obviously be a depraved and loathsome person.”

20. “Well, I love geraniums, and anybody who does not love geraniums must obviously be a depraved and loathsome person.”

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Beverley Nichols Quote: “There are a thousand ‘greatest’ melodies, just as there are a thousand ‘greatest’ poems and a thousand ‘greatest’ pictures, because there are a thousand moods in the mind of man when a certain note rings with the most clarity – when a certain design is most sharply silhouetted against the changing curtain of his mind.”

21. “There are a thousand ‘greatest’ melodies, just as there are a thousand ‘greatest’ poems and a thousand ‘greatest’ pictures, because there are a thousand moods in the mind of man when a certain note rings with the most clarity – when a certain design is most sharply silhouetted against the changing curtain of his mind.”

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Beverley Nichols Quote: “On and on we wander in these pages – and we never reach the point because, happily, there is no point to reach.”

22. “On and on we wander in these pages – and we never reach the point because, happily, there is no point to reach.”

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Beverley Nichols Quote: “Why do insurance companies, when they want to describe an act of God, invariably pick on something which sounds much more like an act of the Devil? One would think that God was exclusively concerned in making hurricanes, smallpox, thunderbolts, and dry rot. They seem to forget that He also manufactures rainbows, apple-blossom, and Siamese kittens. However, that is, perhaps, a diversion.”

23. “Why do insurance companies, when they want to describe an act of God, invariably pick on something which sounds much more like an act of the Devil? One would think that God was exclusively concerned in making hurricanes, smallpox, thunderbolts, and dry rot. They seem to forget that He also manufactures rainbows, apple-blossom, and Siamese kittens. However, that is, perhaps, a diversion.”

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Beverley Nichols Quote: “Some people find importance in the photographs of those titanic mushrooms of atomic poison which are periodically exploded over the world’s deserts; I find greater importance in one very small mushroom which mysteriously springs up in the shadow of the tool-shed.”

24. “Some people find importance in the photographs of those titanic mushrooms of atomic poison which are periodically exploded over the world’s deserts; I find greater importance in one very small mushroom which mysteriously springs up in the shadow of the tool-shed.”

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Beverley Nichols Quote: “The low lintels of the cottage have many disadvantages, but they have one supreme advantage. They afford an immediate topic of conversation. They make things start, quite literally, with a bang.”

25. “The low lintels of the cottage have many disadvantages, but they have one supreme advantage. They afford an immediate topic of conversation. They make things start, quite literally, with a bang.”

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Beverley Nichols Quote: “There is something dead about a lawn which has never been shadowed by the swift silhouette of a dancing kitten.”

26. “There is something dead about a lawn which has never been shadowed by the swift silhouette of a dancing kitten.”

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Beverley Nichols Quote: “Into the room, with great dignity, stalked One and Four. They had mud on their paws, and they naturally decided to sit on my lap. They smelt of moss and loam, and they both set up a slow, tranquil purr. Cats, I thought, are the best.”

27. “Into the room, with great dignity, stalked One and Four. They had mud on their paws, and they naturally decided to sit on my lap. They smelt of moss and loam, and they both set up a slow, tranquil purr. Cats, I thought, are the best.”

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Beverley Nichols Quote: “By the way, the best place to find names for fictional characters, if you are ever foolish enough to write a novel, is in a Bradshaw or an ABC. All the nicest people always sound like railway stations.”

28. “By the way, the best place to find names for fictional characters, if you are ever foolish enough to write a novel, is in a Bradshaw or an ABC. All the nicest people always sound like railway stations.”

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Beverley Nichols Quote: “The one thing of which we are certain, in an uncertain universe, is that energy is never lost. It is transformed, but it never disappears.”

29. “The one thing of which we are certain, in an uncertain universe, is that energy is never lost. It is transformed, but it never disappears.”

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