Quotes About Sylvia Townsend Warner

when the German propaganda tries to be winsome it is like a clown with homicidal mania - ludicrous and terrifying both at once.

Dame Salome, with one of those flashes of worldly wisdom which at times emerge from very stupid well-meaning people

Squeezed uncomfortably into a corner the chaplain looked at him with a malevolence so habitual that it was almost indifference.

It was through him that the novices began to practise levitation.

His spirits, sharpened by disliking the bishop as an appetite is sharpened by pickles, took an upward turn.