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Top 20 Jan Struther Quotes (2025 Update)

Jan Struther Quote: “It took me forty years on earth To reach this sure conclusion: There is no Heaven but clarity, No Hell except confusion.”

1. “It took me forty years on earth To reach this sure conclusion: There is no Heaven but clarity, No Hell except confusion.”

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Jan Struther Quote: “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.”

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.”

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Jan Struther Quote: “And I am a mockery, who was God before.”

3. “And I am a mockery, who was God before.”

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Jan Struther Quote: “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.”

4. “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.”

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Jan Struther Quote: “She reached her doorstep. The key turned sweetly in the lock. That was the kind of thing one remembered about a house: not the size of the rooms or the color of the walls, but the feel of the door-handles and light-switches, the shape and texture of the banister-rail under one’s palm; minute tactual intimacies, whose resumption was the essence of coming home.”

5. “She reached her doorstep. The key turned sweetly in the lock. That was the kind of thing one remembered about a house: not the size of the rooms or the color of the walls, but the feel of the door-handles and light-switches, the shape and texture of the banister-rail under one’s palm; minute tactual intimacies, whose resumption was the essence of coming home.”

— Jan Struther

Jan Struther Quote: “To be entirely at leisure for one day is to be for one day an immortal.”

6. “To be entirely at leisure for one day is to be for one day an immortal.”

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Jan Struther Quote: “In childhood the daylight always fails too soon – except when there are going to be fireworks;.”

7. “In childhood the daylight always fails too soon – except when there are going to be fireworks;.”

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Jan Struther Quote: “It’s as important to marry the right life as it is the right person.”

8. “It’s as important to marry the right life as it is the right person.”

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Jan Struther Quote: “Private opinion creates public opinion. Public opinion overflows eventually into national behavior as things are arranged at present, can make or mar the world. That is why private opinion, and private behavior, and private conversation are so terrifyingly important.”

9. “Private opinion creates public opinion. Public opinion overflows eventually into national behavior as things are arranged at present, can make or mar the world. That is why private opinion, and private behavior, and private conversation are so terrifyingly important.”

— Jan Struther

Jan Struther Quote: “Constructive destruction is one of the most delightful employments in the world, and in civilized life the opportunities for it are only too rare.”

10. “Constructive destruction is one of the most delightful employments in the world, and in civilized life the opportunities for it are only too rare.”

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Jan Struther Quote: “Words were the only net to catch a mood, the only sure weapon against oblivion.”

11. “Words were the only net to catch a mood, the only sure weapon against oblivion.”

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Jan Struther Quote: “To be put down in this world, and given only eighty years to get to know it in, is like being let loose in the United States of America for the first time with a high-powered car and unlimited gasoline – but with a visa that is valid for only a week. It’s agonizing, that’s what it is.”

12. “To be put down in this world, and given only eighty years to get to know it in, is like being let loose in the United States of America for the first time with a high-powered car and unlimited gasoline – but with a visa that is valid for only a week. It’s agonizing, that’s what it is.”

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Jan Struther Quote: “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.”

13. “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.”

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Jan Struther Quote: “Giving a party is like having a baby: its conception is more fun than its completion; and once you have begun it, it is almost impossible to stop.”

14. “Giving a party is like having a baby: its conception is more fun than its completion; and once you have begun it, it is almost impossible to stop.”

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Jan Struther Quote: “O love’s a simple word to sayWith nature aiding and abetting.”

15. “O love’s a simple word to sayWith nature aiding and abetting.”

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Jan Struther Quote: “The worst of gardening is that it’s so full of metaphors one hardly knows where to begin.”

16. “The worst of gardening is that it’s so full of metaphors one hardly knows where to begin.”

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Jan Struther Quote: “The importance of the ordinary citizen is very greatly underestimated – not so much by those in authority as by the ordinary citizen himself.”

17. “The importance of the ordinary citizen is very greatly underestimated – not so much by those in authority as by the ordinary citizen himself.”

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Jan Struther Quote: “A single person is a manageable entity, whom you can either make friends with or leave alone. But half of a married couple is not exactly a whole human being: if the marriage is successful it is something a little more than that; if unsuccessful, a little less. In either case, a fresh complication is added to the already intricate business of friendship: as Clem had once remarked, you might as well try to dance a tarantella with a Siamese twin.”

18. “A single person is a manageable entity, whom you can either make friends with or leave alone. But half of a married couple is not exactly a whole human being: if the marriage is successful it is something a little more than that; if unsuccessful, a little less. In either case, a fresh complication is added to the already intricate business of friendship: as Clem had once remarked, you might as well try to dance a tarantella with a Siamese twin.”

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Jan Struther Quote: “This was the cream of marriage, this nightly turning out of the day’s pocketful of memories, this deft habitual sharing of two pairs of eyes, two pairs of ears. It gave you, in a sense, almost a double life: though never, on the other hand, quite a single one.”

19. “This was the cream of marriage, this nightly turning out of the day’s pocketful of memories, this deft habitual sharing of two pairs of eyes, two pairs of ears. It gave you, in a sense, almost a double life: though never, on the other hand, quite a single one.”

— Jan Struther

Jan Struther Quote: “Things happen too quickly, crisis follows crisis, the soil of our minds is perpetually disturbed. Each of us, to relieve his feelings, broadcasts his own running commentary on the preposterous and bewildering events of the hour: and this, nowadays, is what passes for conversation.”

20. “Things happen too quickly, crisis follows crisis, the soil of our minds is perpetually disturbed. Each of us, to relieve his feelings, broadcasts his own running commentary on the preposterous and bewildering events of the hour: and this, nowadays, is what passes for conversation.”

— Jan Struther

Jan Struther Quote: “I can’t abide cats myself, but of course we have to have one in the kitchen to deal with the mice. I insisted on getting a black one, because anything else shows the dirt so in London.”

21. “I can’t abide cats myself, but of course we have to have one in the kitchen to deal with the mice. I insisted on getting a black one, because anything else shows the dirt so in London.”

— Jan Struther

Jan Struther Quote: “One is what one remembers: no more, no less.”

22. “One is what one remembers: no more, no less.”

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Jan Struther Quote: “Clem Miniver: She was a good cook, as good cooks go. And as good cooks go, she went.”

23. “Clem Miniver: She was a good cook, as good cooks go. And as good cooks go, she went.”

— Jan Struther

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