Beverley Nichols
Beverley Nichols
John Beverley Nicholswas an author, playwright, journalist, composer, and public speaker...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth9 September 1898
flower garden blossoming
To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat.
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.
eye garden cities
A gardener is never shut out from his garden, wherever he may be. Its comfort never fails. Though the city may close about him, and the grime and soot descend upon him, he can still wander in his garden, does he but close his eyes.
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.
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.
spring heart gay
Most people, early in November, take last looks at their gardens, are are then prepared to ignore them until the spring. I am quite sure that a garden doesn't like to be ignored like this. It doesn't like to be covered in dust sheets, as though it were an old room which you had shut up during the winter. Especially since a garden knows how gay and delightful it can be, even in the very frozen heart of the winter, if you only give it a chance.
men world lasts
We both know, you and I, that if all men were gardeners, the world at last would be at peace.
heart garden desire
A garden is a place for shaping a little world of your own according to your heart's desire.
cat expression house
Let us be honest: most of us rather like our cats to have a streak of wickedness. I should not feel quite easy in the company of any cat that walked around the house with a saintly expression.
laughter finding-yourself bursting
Do you ever find yourself bursting into a sort of lunatic laughter at the sheer prettiness of things?
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.
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.