TagExcellent Women

No doubt when one is in love with somebody one doesn’t notice his feet so much.

Barbara Pym – Excellent Women

It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.

Barbara Pym – Excellent Women

A glass of sherry… does not make up for the lack of that sense of being needed which is so important to most of us.

Barbara Pym – Excellent Women

Sometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.

Barbara Pym – Excellent Women

I had sometimes thought that having a baby might be a good way of making use of the long evenings.

Barbara Pym – Excellent Women

You can never have too many books, she said seriously. But where will you put them all?

Barbara Pym – Excellent Women

It’s so easy to get people to come out on a fine day, but of course the characters that really matter are the ones who come out when it’s raining.

Barbara Pym – Excellent Women

I don’t know that one wants to be too happy in this life. A little bit of worry or hardship, now and then, makes us appreciate the good times.

Barbara Pym – Excellent Women

We can always have lunch together and talk about my soul afterwards, but I warn you in advance that I haven’t got one.

Barbara Pym – Excellent Women

If I were to get married again, it would be for love, or it would be for friendship and companionship, certainly not for the cooking and housework.

Barbara Pym – Excellent Women