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.
Beverley NicholsA garden is a place for shaping a little world of your own according to your heart's desire.
Beverley NicholsMarriage is a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.
Beverley NicholsWe both know, you and I, that if all men were gardeners, the world at last would be at peace.
Beverley NicholsWell, I love geraniums, and anybody who does not love geraniums must obviously be a depraved and loathsome person.
Beverley NicholsI 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.
Beverley Nichols