Quotes by : Barbara Pym

She knew exactly how she ought to feel, for she was well read in our greater and lesser English poets,....

I stretched out my hand towards the little bookshelf where I kept cookery and devotional books, the most....

You know Mildred would never do anything wrong or foolish. I reflected a little sadly that this was only....

He certainly is very charming, but he makes me feel slightly ill at ease—almost as if I were a woman....

It was the ring on the left hand that people at the Old Girls' Reunion looked for. Often, in fact nearly....

We, my dear Mildred, are the observers of life. Let other people get married by all means, the more the....

How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try....

Oh, this coming back to an empty house,' Rupert thought, when he had seen her safely up to her door.....

Once outside the magic circle the writers became their lonely selves, pondering on poems, observing their....

Prue hadn't really been in love with Fabian. Indeed, it was obvious that at times she found him both....