"How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it."
Top & Most Famous Barbara Pym Quotes
"Surely many a romance must have been nipped in the bud by sitting opposite somebody eating spaghetti?"
"When we reached the bus-stop we were a long way behind in the queue and when the bus came it took only half a dozen people. I noticed a group of priests looking down on us from the upper deck and I felt that somehow the Pope and his Dogmas had triumphed after all."
"A youngish woman of about thirty-five who had come in to shelter froma heavy shower of rain, pricked up her ears and looked away from the book she had not been reading. To realize that two men could apparently be quarrelling almost publicly over a woman in this unchivalrous age sent her on her way with new hope."
"Once you get into the habit of falling in love you will find that it happens quite often and means less and less."
"Dulcie always found a public library a little upsetting, for one saw so many odd people there…"
"Yes, life has to go on, and I suppose a cup of tea does make it seem to be doing that more than anything."
"It seems to be a kind of lounge,? she added, tripping over a small footstool. The floor seemed to be littered with them, like toadstools."
"Novel writing is a kind of private pleasure, even if nothing comes of it in worldly terms."
"It was a cold November day and she had dressed herself up in layers of cardigans and covered the whole lot with her old tweed coat, the one she might have used for feeding the chickens in."
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