Stella Gibbons
Born: 01-04-1902
Stella Gibbons was an English author and journalist, best known for her satirical novel "Cold Comfort Farm," published in 1932. Born in London in 1902, Gibbons crafted a literary career marked by wit and keen social observations. Over her lifetime, she wrote numerous novels, poetry, and short stories, capturing the quirks of rural and urban life. Her work remains celebrated for its humor and distinctive narrative style.
Book summaries for books written by Stella Gibbons
Quotes
The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.
Life is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward.
The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.
They could never belong to anyone else or to any dispensation.
The trouble with you, Flora, is that you're a born heroine, and you can't forget it for a moment.
All the best stories are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times.
I do not believe in love of any description, only hate.
Everything a sheep could want in life is sheepish. What a daughter of Flora Poste could want that was sheepish, was more than I could imagine.
Many are wicked enough to deserve Hell, but very few are wicked enough to accept its rewards.
When you are in town, Flora, you will seldom have the choice between two evils, only the choice one one.
How perfectly simple everything was in this world, if one took only one step at a time!
Once launched on the turbulent sea of love, one believed fiercely in the possibility of the highest happiness: in the other person, one's runaway horse.