Quotes About Gibbons

I was very surprised when I heard that I had been chosen to receive the James Cardinal Gibbons Award.

Denzil Smith was not a particularly pious man, but he was a curious one, which made him excellent company for Lady Agatha Ardry. They were dependent on one another in the mindless way of two gibbons dedicated to picking fleas off one another's fur.

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

He stood at the table facing Flora and blowing heavily on his tea and staring at her. Flora did not mind. It was quite interesting: like having tea with a rhinoceros.

But she had a lively acquaintaince with confinement through the works of women novelists, especially those of the unmarried ones.

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

It is rather frightening to be able to write so revoltingly, yet so successfully. All these letters are works of art, except, perhaps, the last. They are positively oily.

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

An interesting survival of mediaeval superstition," commented Flora.