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Top 20 L.P. Hartley Quotes (2025 Update)

L.P. Hartley Quote: “The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.”

1. “The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.”

— L.P. Hartley

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L.P. Hartley Quote: “Not Adam and Eve, after eating the apple, could have been more upset than I was.”

2. “Not Adam and Eve, after eating the apple, could have been more upset than I was.”

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L.P. Hartley Quote: “My dream had become my reality: my old life was a discarded husk.”

3. “My dream had become my reality: my old life was a discarded husk.”

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L.P. Hartley Quote: “Shut the windows, draw the curtains, keep the rumour out!”

4. “Shut the windows, draw the curtains, keep the rumour out!”

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L.P. Hartley Quote: “You insisted on thinking of them as angels, even if they were fallen angels.”

5. “You insisted on thinking of them as angels, even if they were fallen angels.”

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L.P. Hartley Quote: “Grown-ups didn’t seem to realize that for me, as for most other schoolboys, it was easier to keep silent than to speak. I was a natural oyster.”

6. “Grown-ups didn’t seem to realize that for me, as for most other schoolboys, it was easier to keep silent than to speak. I was a natural oyster.”

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L.P. Hartley Quote: “I had never met a lord before, nor had I ever expected to meet one. It didn’t matter what he looked like: he was a lord first, and a human being, with a face and limbs and body, long, long after.”

7. “I had never met a lord before, nor had I ever expected to meet one. It didn’t matter what he looked like: he was a lord first, and a human being, with a face and limbs and body, long, long after.”

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L.P. Hartley Quote: “The conversation of the gods! – I didn’t resent or feel aggrieved because I couldn’t understand it. I was the smallest of the planets, and if I carried messages between them and I couldn’t always understand, that was in order too: they were something in a foreign language – star-talk.”

8. “The conversation of the gods! – I didn’t resent or feel aggrieved because I couldn’t understand it. I was the smallest of the planets, and if I carried messages between them and I couldn’t always understand, that was in order too: they were something in a foreign language – star-talk.”

— L.P. Hartley

L.P. Hartley Quote: “I was no longer satisfied with the small change of experience, which had hitherto contented me. I wanted to deal in larger sums.”

9. “I was no longer satisfied with the small change of experience, which had hitherto contented me. I wanted to deal in larger sums.”

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L.P. Hartley Quote: “To my mind’s eye, my buried memories of Brandham Hall are like effects of chiaroscuro, patches of light and dark: it is only with effort that I see them in terms of colour. There are things I know, though I don’t know how I know them, and things that I remember. Certain things are established in my mind as facts, but no picture attaches to them; on the other hand there are pictures unverified by any fact which recur obsessively, like the landscape of a dream.”

10. “To my mind’s eye, my buried memories of Brandham Hall are like effects of chiaroscuro, patches of light and dark: it is only with effort that I see them in terms of colour. There are things I know, though I don’t know how I know them, and things that I remember. Certain things are established in my mind as facts, but no picture attaches to them; on the other hand there are pictures unverified by any fact which recur obsessively, like the landscape of a dream.”

— L.P. Hartley

L.P. Hartley Quote: “He was surrounded by tyrants who thought they had a right to order him about: it was a conspiracy. He could not call his soul his own.”

11. “He was surrounded by tyrants who thought they had a right to order him about: it was a conspiracy. He could not call his soul his own.”

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L.P. Hartley Quote: “I should not have cared to see it as an act of self-sacrifice even if it had been one; for there is nothing clever in self-sacrifice, nothing to pride oneself on.”

12. “I should not have cared to see it as an act of self-sacrifice even if it had been one; for there is nothing clever in self-sacrifice, nothing to pride oneself on.”

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L.P. Hartley Quote: “To bleed from many wounds may be more serious than to bleed from one, but the pain, being less localized, is also easier for the mind to bear.”

13. “To bleed from many wounds may be more serious than to bleed from one, but the pain, being less localized, is also easier for the mind to bear.”

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L.P. Hartley Quote: “And everyone assured him that he would never be a man until he learned how to drive. Indeed, the future was already dull and menacing with the ambitions other people entertained on his behalf.”

14. “And everyone assured him that he would never be a man until he learned how to drive. Indeed, the future was already dull and menacing with the ambitions other people entertained on his behalf.”

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L.P. Hartley Quote: “No little boy likes to be called a little man, but any little boy likes to be treated as a little man, and this is what Marian had done for me: at times, and when she had wanted to, she had endowed me with the importance of a grown-up; she had made me feel that she depended on me. She, more than anyone, had puffed me up.”

15. “No little boy likes to be called a little man, but any little boy likes to be treated as a little man, and this is what Marian had done for me: at times, and when she had wanted to, she had endowed me with the importance of a grown-up; she had made me feel that she depended on me. She, more than anyone, had puffed me up.”

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L.P. Hartley Quote: “What did we talk about that has left me with an impression of wings and flashes, as of air displaced by the flight of a bird? Of swooping and soaring, of a faint iridescence subdued to the enfolding brightness of the day?”

16. “What did we talk about that has left me with an impression of wings and flashes, as of air displaced by the flight of a bird? Of swooping and soaring, of a faint iridescence subdued to the enfolding brightness of the day?”

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L.P. Hartley Quote: “The civilian world was a dull place, a tired three-piece orchestra, waiting for the word ‘fun’.”

17. “The civilian world was a dull place, a tired three-piece orchestra, waiting for the word ‘fun’.”

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L.P. Hartley Quote: “The future was to be a laborious business.”

18. “The future was to be a laborious business.”

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L.P. Hartley Quote: “Mr. Scott Fitzgerald deserves a good shaking. Here is an unmistakable talent unashamed of making itself a motley to the view. The Great Gatsby is an absurd story, whether considered as romance, melodrama, or plain record of New York high life.”

19. “Mr. Scott Fitzgerald deserves a good shaking. Here is an unmistakable talent unashamed of making itself a motley to the view. The Great Gatsby is an absurd story, whether considered as romance, melodrama, or plain record of New York high life.”

— L.P. Hartley

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L.P. Hartley Quote: “It’s better to write about things you feel than about things you know about.”

20. “It’s better to write about things you feel than about things you know about.”

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L.P. Hartley Quote: “To see things as they really were – what an empoverishment!”

21. “To see things as they really were – what an empoverishment!”

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L.P. Hartley Quote: “Readers tend to devour short stories on a newssheet, but would be disinclined to read them in collections.”

22. “Readers tend to devour short stories on a newssheet, but would be disinclined to read them in collections.”

— L.P. Hartley

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