CategoryLiterary

Flora hated messy love affairs, those which got into the papers and involved the need for romantic suicides.

Stella Gibbons – Cold Comfort Farm

The Starkadders were like most big families — there was every kind of person among them.

Stella Gibbons – Cold Comfort Farm

You have the most revolting Florence Nightingale complex.

Stella Gibbons – Cold Comfort Farm

There’s no butter in hell!

Stella Gibbons – Cold Comfort Farm

Count your blessings; name them one by one.

Stella Gibbons – Cold Comfort Farm

The cows swayed slowly through the yard, with a sound as of milk.

Stella Gibbons – Cold Comfort Farm

Elfine was like a wood nymph — a thing of rags and tatters and airy whims.

Stella Gibbons – Cold Comfort Farm

Seth’s idea of morality was that it was something that belonged to other people.

Stella Gibbons – Cold Comfort Farm