Stella Gibbons, the author of "Cold Comfort Farm," was an English novelist and journalist. Her most famous work, "Cold Comfort Farm," is a satirical novel set in a fictional rural community. It was first published in 1932 and has since become a classic of English literature.
Nature is all very well in her place, but she must not be allowed to make things untidy.
Stella Gibbons – Cold Comfort Farm
One of the disadvantages of almost universal education was the fact that all kinds of persons acquired a familiarity with one’s favorite writers.
Stella Gibbons – Cold Comfort Farm
She liked Victorian novels. They were the only kind of novel you could read while you were eating an apple.
Stella Gibbons – Cold Comfort Farm
He was a tree, and she was a flower growing in its shade.
Stella Gibbons – Cold Comfort Farm
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