There have always been Starkadders at Cold Comfort Farm

Happiness can never hope to command so much interest as distress.

There are some things (like first love and one’s first reviews) at which a woman in her middle years does not care to look too closely.

Nature is all very well in her place, but she must not be allowed to make things untidy.

There have always been Starkadders at Cold Comfort Farm

And when April like an over-lustful lover leaped upon the lush flanks of the Downs there would be yet another child in the wretched hut down on Nettle Flitch Field, where Meriam housed the fruits of her shame.

One of the disadvantages of almost universal education was the fact that all kinds of persons acquired a familiarity with one's favorite writers. It gave one a curious feeling; it was like seeing a drunken stranger wrapped in one's dressing gown.