Beverley Nichols
Beverley Nichols
John Beverley Nicholswas an author, playwright, journalist, composer, and public speaker...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth9 September 1898
years giving stealing
It is only to the gardener that time is a friend, giving each year more than he steals.
women psychologist worst
As any psychologist will tell you, the worst thing you can possibly do to a woman is to deprive her of a grievance.
taken cutting garden
I had never 'taken a cutting' before ... Do you realize that the whole thing is miraculous? It is exactly as though you were to cut off your wife's leg, stick it in the lawn, and be greeted on the following day by an entirely new woman, sprung from the leg, advancing across the lawn to meet you.
chapter chapters marriage poetry remaining written
Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.
funny anniversary marriage
Marriage is a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.
life garden earth
To dig one's own spade into one's own earth! Has life anything better to offer than this?
book cat men
Long experience has taught me that people who do not like geraniums have something morally unsound about them. Sooner or later you will find them out; you will discover that they drink, or steal books, or speak sharply to cats. Never trust a man or a woman who is not passionately devoted to geraniums.
men world lasts
We both know, you and I, that if all men were gardeners, the world at last would be at peace.
wise country wine
Life in the country teaches one that the really stimulating things are the quiet, natural things, and the really wearisome things are the noisy, unnatural things. It is more exciting to stand still than to dance. Silence is more eloquent than speech. Water is more stimulating than wine. Fresh air is more intoxicating than cigarette smoke. Sunlight is more subtle than electric light. The scent of grass is more luxurious than the most expensive perfume. The slow, simple observations of the peasant are more wise than the most sparkling epigrams of the latest wit.
cat garden deserve
A garden without cats, it will be generally agreed, can scarcely deserve to be called a garden at all.
flower rose miracle
Every moment of this strange and lovely life from dawn to dusk, is a miracle. Somewhere, always a rose is opening its petals to the dawn. Somewhere, always, a flower is fading in the dusk.
beautiful summer flower
Last summer I was staying at a house in Hampshire which was famous for the brilliance and the originality of its gardens. There were many of them, but the most beautiful of all was a walled garden in which every flower was blue. There were all the obvious things like delphiniums and acronitums and larkspurs, but the most beautiful blue of all came from the groups of cabbages - the ordinary blue pickling cabbage. Set against the blazing blue of the other flowers, it had a bloom and elegance which made it a thing of the greatest delight.
laughter finding-yourself bursting
Do you ever find yourself bursting into a sort of lunatic laughter at the sheer prettiness of things?
doe wells persons
Well, I love geraniums, and anybody who does not love geraniums must obviously be a depraved and loathsome person.