Quotes About Stella Gibbons

My favorite book of all time is Cold Comfort Farm, by Stella Gibbons.

That would be delightful,' agreed Flora, thinking how nasty and boring it would be.

Here was an occasion, she thought, for indulging in that deliberate rudeness which only persons with habitually good manners have the right to commit...

I do not object to the phenomena, but I do object to the parrot.

On the whole, Cold Comfort was not without its promise of mystery and excitement.

Send clean socks. Love to all except Micah.

It was the loveliest hour of the English year: seven o'clock on Midsummer Night.

Her voice had a breathless, broken quality that suggested the fluty sexless timbre of a choir-boy's notes (only choir-boys are seldom sexless, as many a harassed vicaress knows to her cost).

All the same, I don't mean nothin' you wouldn't like yer mas to know about, see? That's straight, that is. It's Art, and that makes all the difference. *When it ain't Art it's dirt, but if it's Art it's all right, see?*

Aunt Ada was most emphatically one of the Substances not Included in the Outline.

An interesting survival of mediaeval superstition," commented Flora.

fundamental difference in approach can make the short stories of Stella Gibbons seem somewhat obvious in their tone. And yet this is misleading: these stories are not obvious at all; they simply adhere to a storytelling convention that has been lost sight of in our quest for greater depth of characterization and psychological insight.