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Top 20 Flora Thompson Quotes (2025 Update)

Flora Thompson Quote: “You can lock up from a thief, but you can’t from a liar.”

1. “You can lock up from a thief, but you can’t from a liar.”

— Flora Thompson

Flora Thompson Quote: “It was still the custom of the countryside to build with local materials produced as close to the selected site as possible, for transport was difficult, even the best of country roads being more fitted for horseback traffic rather than heavy loads.”

2. “It was still the custom of the countryside to build with local materials produced as close to the selected site as possible, for transport was difficult, even the best of country roads being more fitted for horseback traffic rather than heavy loads.”

— Flora Thompson

Flora Thompson Quote: “Any artwork needs time and patience and needs above a quiet mind.”

3. “Any artwork needs time and patience and needs above a quiet mind.”

— Flora Thompson

Flora Thompson Quote: “Nature knows no calendar, the seasons move in a circle.”

4. “Nature knows no calendar, the seasons move in a circle.”

— Flora Thompson

Flora Thompson Quote: “The harvest-home or supper is a thing of the past. To those who feel the fascination of the past this may appear sad, but it is not so really for, even while it existed, this surface goodwill was often an empty show.”

5. “The harvest-home or supper is a thing of the past. To those who feel the fascination of the past this may appear sad, but it is not so really for, even while it existed, this surface goodwill was often an empty show.”

— Flora Thompson

Flora Thompson Quote: “It is the fashion to talk of our changing climate and bewail the hot summers and hard winters of tradition, but how seldom we pause to marvel at the remarkable constancy of the weather from year to year.”

6. “It is the fashion to talk of our changing climate and bewail the hot summers and hard winters of tradition, but how seldom we pause to marvel at the remarkable constancy of the weather from year to year.”

— Flora Thompson

Flora Thompson Quote: “We cannot bring the good old days back but, if we must eat mass-made foods, get laws passed to insist upon its goodness and purity.”

7. “We cannot bring the good old days back but, if we must eat mass-made foods, get laws passed to insist upon its goodness and purity.”

— Flora Thompson

Flora Thompson Quote: “Words as to the inner emotions do not come readily to me, for I have led an isolated life mentally and spiritually.”

8. “Words as to the inner emotions do not come readily to me, for I have led an isolated life mentally and spiritually.”

— Flora Thompson

Flora Thompson Quote: “Unlike most great talkers, the rooks are good workers, too.”

9. “Unlike most great talkers, the rooks are good workers, too.”

— Flora Thompson

Flora Thompson Quote: “For myself I would desire a combination of old romance and modern machinery.”

10. “For myself I would desire a combination of old romance and modern machinery.”

— Flora Thompson

Flora Thompson Quote: “I do not compare the past with the present without a prejudice for either, but, great as the improvement in country life is in many respects, it seems a pity the old cheap, wholesome dishes have gone to make way for tinned and preserved foods.”

11. “I do not compare the past with the present without a prejudice for either, but, great as the improvement in country life is in many respects, it seems a pity the old cheap, wholesome dishes have gone to make way for tinned and preserved foods.”

— Flora Thompson

Flora Thompson Quote: “Manner and morals have improved, improved wages and world travel during the war have had effect, and the farm labourer now is an intelligent, self respecting workman, on a level at least with the town artisan. The village rustic of the past no longer exists outside of the comic papers.”

12. “Manner and morals have improved, improved wages and world travel during the war have had effect, and the farm labourer now is an intelligent, self respecting workman, on a level at least with the town artisan. The village rustic of the past no longer exists outside of the comic papers.”

— Flora Thompson

Flora Thompson Quote: “Traditions and customs which had lasted for centuries did not die out in a moment.”

13. “Traditions and customs which had lasted for centuries did not die out in a moment.”

— Flora Thompson

Flora Thompson Quote: “Now, with the glamour of the past upon them we are inclined to look back on old world festivities with regret and consider present day dances as a poor substitute for the old. From an artistic point of view, they maybe, but in individual freedom and independence of spirit they mark a stage upward.”

14. “Now, with the glamour of the past upon them we are inclined to look back on old world festivities with regret and consider present day dances as a poor substitute for the old. From an artistic point of view, they maybe, but in individual freedom and independence of spirit they mark a stage upward.”

— Flora Thompson

Flora Thompson Quote: “The wife ought to have the first child and the husband the second, then there wouldn’t ever be any more.”

15. “The wife ought to have the first child and the husband the second, then there wouldn’t ever be any more.”

— Flora Thompson

Flora Thompson Quote: “Other days, other ways; and, although they have now been greatly improved upon, the old country midwives did at least succeed in bringing into the world many generations of our forefathers, or where should we be now? –.”

16. “Other days, other ways; and, although they have now been greatly improved upon, the old country midwives did at least succeed in bringing into the world many generations of our forefathers, or where should we be now? –.”

— Flora Thompson

Flora Thompson Quote: “What greater restoratives have we poor mortals than a good meal taken in the company of loving friends?”

17. “What greater restoratives have we poor mortals than a good meal taken in the company of loving friends?”

— Flora Thompson

Flora Thompson Quote: “Alas! in nature, as in art, we gain only according to our capacity. You cannot put an ocean in a pint pot.”

18. “Alas! in nature, as in art, we gain only according to our capacity. You cannot put an ocean in a pint pot.”

— Flora Thompson

Flora Thompson Quote: “There is something exhilarating about pay-day, even when the pay is poor and already mortgaged for necessities. With.”

19. “There is something exhilarating about pay-day, even when the pay is poor and already mortgaged for necessities. With.”

— Flora Thompson

Flora Thompson Quote: “It was ordained that our earthly pilgrammage should be a struggle, and life would be a tame affair if everything went smoothly.”

20. “It was ordained that our earthly pilgrammage should be a struggle, and life would be a tame affair if everything went smoothly.”

— Flora Thompson

Flora Thompson Quote: “Afterwards, they always had tea in the kitchen, much the nicest room in the house.”

21. “Afterwards, they always had tea in the kitchen, much the nicest room in the house.”

— Flora Thompson

Flora Thompson Quote: “The human eye loves to rest upon wide expanses of pure colour: the moors in the purple heyday of the heather, miles of green downland, and the sea when it lies calm and blue and boundless, all delight it; but to some none of these, lovely though they all are, can give the same satisfaction of spirit as acres upon acres of golden corn. There is both beauty and bread and the seeds of bread for future generations.”

22. “The human eye loves to rest upon wide expanses of pure colour: the moors in the purple heyday of the heather, miles of green downland, and the sea when it lies calm and blue and boundless, all delight it; but to some none of these, lovely though they all are, can give the same satisfaction of spirit as acres upon acres of golden corn. There is both beauty and bread and the seeds of bread for future generations.”

— Flora Thompson

Flora Thompson Quote: “No book’s too old for anybody who is able to enjoy it, and none too young, either, for that matter. Let her read what she likes.”

23. “No book’s too old for anybody who is able to enjoy it, and none too young, either, for that matter. Let her read what she likes.”

— Flora Thompson

Flora Thompson Quote: “People were poorer and had not the comforts, amusements, or knowledge we have today; but they were happier.”

24. “People were poorer and had not the comforts, amusements, or knowledge we have today; but they were happier.”

— Flora Thompson

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