Beverley Nichols Quotes

• Matrimonio es un libro cuyo primer capítulo está escrito en poesía y los restantes en prosa.

  Beverley Nichols

  Funny, Anniversary, Romantic

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• We both know, you and I, that if all men were gardeners, the world at last would be at peace.

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  Hombres, Serían, Mundo

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• 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.

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  Flower, Rose, Miracle

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• A garden is a place for shaping a little world of your own according to your heart's desire.

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  Corazón, Jardín, Deseo

  Beverley Nichols (2009). “Rhapsody in Green: The Garden Wit and Wisdom of Beverley Nichols”, p.123, Timber Press

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• 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.

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  Cat, Expression, House

  Beverley Nichols (1960). “Cats' A. B. C.”

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• La vida en el campo le enseña a uno que las cosas realmente estimulantes son las tranquilas y naturales, y que las cosas realmente fastidiosas son las ruidosas y antinaturales. Es más emocionante quedarse quieto que bailar. El silencio es más elocuente que la palabra. El agua es más estimulante que el vino. El aire fresco es más embriagador que el humo del tabaco. La luz del sol es más sutil que la luz eléctrica. El aroma de la hierba es más lujoso que el perfume más caro. Las lentas y sencillas observaciones del campesino son más sabias que los epigramas más chispeantes del último ingenio.

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  Life, Wise, Country

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• Una larga experiencia me ha enseñado que las personas a las que no les gustan los geranios tienen algo moralmente insano. Tarde o temprano los descubrirás; descubrirás que beben, o roban libros, o hablan bruscamente a los gatos. Nunca confíes en un hombre o en una mujer que no se dedique apasionadamente a los geranios.

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  Book, Cat, Men

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• A garden without cats, it will be generally agreed, can scarcely deserve to be called a garden at all...much of the magic of the heather beds would vanish if, as we bent over them, there was no chance that we might hear a faint rustle among the blossoms, and find ourselves staring into a pair of sleepy green eyes.

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  Eye, Cat, Garden

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• A principios de noviembre, la mayoría de la gente echa un último vistazo a sus jardines y se dispone a ignorarlos hasta la primavera. Estoy seguro de que a un jardín no le gusta que lo ignoren así. No le gusta estar cubierto de sábanas de polvo, como si fuera una vieja habitación que has cerrado durante el invierno. Sobre todo porque un jardín sabe lo alegre y encantador que puede ser, incluso en el corazón helado del invierno, si le das una oportunidad.

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  Spring, Heart, Gay

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• It is only to the gardener that time is a friend, giving each year more than he steals.

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  Years, Giving, Stealing

  Beverley Nichols (2009). “Rhapsody in Green: The Garden Wit and Wisdom of Beverley Nichols”, p.126, Timber Press

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• ¡Cavar la propia pala en la propia tierra! ¿Tiene la vida algo mejor que ofrecer que esto?

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  Life, Garden, Earth

  Beverley Nichols (2009). “Rhapsody in Green: The Garden Wit and Wisdom of Beverley Nichols”, p.17, Timber Press

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• ¿Alguna vez te has sentido estallar en una especie de risa lunática ante la belleza de las cosas?

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  Laughter, Finding Yourself, Bursting

  Beverley Nichols (2009). “Rhapsody in Green: The Garden Wit and Wisdom of Beverley Nichols”, p.112, Timber Press

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• 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.

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  Taken, Cutting, Garden

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• Ser vencido por la fragancia de las flores es una deliciosa forma de derrota.

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  Flower, Garden, Overcoming

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• 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.

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  Eye, Garden, Cities

  Beverley Nichols (1932). “Down the garden path”, Doubleday, Doran & co., inc.

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• A garden without cats, it will be generally agreed, can scarcely deserve to be called a garden at all.

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  Cat, Garden, Animal

  Beverley Nichols (1968). “Garden open tomorrow”, Butterworth-Heinemann

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• Well, I love geraniums, and anybody who does not love geraniums must obviously be a depraved and loathsome person.

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  Doe, Wells, Persons

  Beverley Nichols (1953). “Merry Hall”

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• As any psychologist will tell you, the worst thing you can possibly do to a woman is to deprive her of a grievance.

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  Women, Psychologist, Grievance

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• 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.

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  Hermoso, Verano, Flor

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• The Oldfields of the future are beyond hearing; they are shut up in the factories and the workshops, leading a rackety and mechanical existence, to the damage of their bodies and the peril of their souls, for the sake of an extra pound or so a week, which they promptly spend on mental or physical narcotics.

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  Soul, Body, Sake

  Beverley Nichols (1953). “Merry Hall”

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