Top 9 Quotes by Esther Meynell

Country things are the necessary root of our life - and that remains true even of a rootless and tragically urban civilization. To live permanently away from the country is a form of slow death.

Country things are the necessary root of our life - and that remains true even of a rootless and tragically urban civilization. To live permanently away from the country is a form of slow death.

Esther Meynell

Country, Civilization, Roots

Esther Meynell (1940). “A Woman Talking”, London, Chapman & Hall [1940.]

Books, to the reading child, are so much more than books-they are dreams and knowledge, they are a future, and a past.

Esther Meynell

Dream, Children, Book

Esther Meynell (1940). “A Woman Talking”, London, Chapman & Hall [1940.]

A garden has a curious innocent way of consuming cash while all the time you are under the illusion that you are spending nothing.

Esther Meynell

Home, Garden, Simplicity

Esther Meynell (1940). “A Woman Talking”, London, Chapman & Hall [1940.]

It is only after a fair portion of one's life that one really knows what are the things that matter, the things that will remain until the end.

Esther Meynell

Past, Matter, Ends

There is nothing in nature quite so joyful as the very young and silly lamb - odd that it should develop into that dull and sober animal the sheep.

Esther Meynell

Silly, Animal, Sheep

Esther Meynell (1940). “A Woman Talking”, London, Chapman & Hall [1940.]

A horse, if he happens to have a contemptuous disposition, can sneer very effectively.

Esther Meynell

Horse, Disposition, Contemptuous

Esther Meynell (1940). “A Woman Talking”, London, Chapman & Hall [1940.]

Always, our eyes look backwards with the conviction that then, and not now, was the golden age.

Esther Meynell

Eye, Past, Age

It is so often the odd, the unexpected, the apparently trifling, that stamps itself upon the memory for ever, while much more memorable things pass away like a breath of wind.

Esther Meynell

Memories, Memorable, Wind

Esther Meynell (1940). “A Woman Talking”, London, Chapman & Hall [1940.]