Quotes by : L.P. Hartley

..the past kept pricking at me and I knew that all the elements of those nineteen days in July were astir....

Even the most impassioned devotee of the ghost story would admit that the taste for it is slightly abnormal,....

If personality expresses itself by acts of discrimination, and discrimination, besides being taboo, has....

To see things as they really were--what an empoverishment!

If my twelve-year-old self, of whom I had grown rather fond, thinking about him, were to reproach me:....

Detective-story writers give this thrill by exploiting the resources of the possible; however improbable....

I had never met a lord before, nor had I ever expected to meet one. It didn't matter what he looked like:....

Believing himself to be unseen by other bathers, he gave himself up to being alone with his body. He....

To my mind's eye, my buried memories of Brandham Hall are like effects of chiaroscuro, patches of light....

The past is a foreign country they do things differently there.