Quotes About Barbara Pym

I was so astonished that I could think of nothing to say, but wondered irrelevantly if I was to be caught with a teapot in my hand on every dramatic occasion.

I hope you don't mind tea in mugs,' she said, coming in with a tray. 'I told you I was a slut.

Have you some garlic?' Prudence asked. 'Garlic?' echoed Jane in astonishment. 'Certainly not! Imagine a clergyman and his wife going about the parish smelling of garlic!'

I think just a cup of tea...' There was something to be said for tea and a comfortable chat about crematoria.

She had rheumatism too, but Belinda realized that she would have to have something out of self-defence and perhaps with the passing of the years it had become a reality. One never knew.

Oh, God, yes! You'd hate sharing a kitchen with me. I'm such a slut,' she said, almost proudly.

You must be Mrs. Cleveland's friend that's come to stay,' said a woman in a dark felt hat trimmed with a bird's body.

I always feel that one ought to give men the opportunity for self-sacrifice; their natures are so much less noble than ours.