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.
Beverley NicholsTags: cats
We both know, you and I, that if all men were gardeners, the world at last would be at peace.
Beverley NicholsDo you ever find yourself bursting into a sort of lunatic laughter at the sheer prettiness of things?
Beverley NicholsTo be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat.
Marriage is a book in which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.
Beverley NicholsThe 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.
Beverley NicholsWell, I love geraniums, and anybody who does not love geraniums must obviously be a depraved and loathsome person.
Beverley NicholsFor a garden is a mistress, and gardening is a blend of all the arts, and if it is not the death of me, sooner or later, I shall be much surprised.
Beverley NicholsOften, when I have been feeling lonely, when a book as been thrust aside in boredom [...] I have lain back and stared at the shadows on the ceiling, wondering what life is all about [...] and then, suddenly, there is the echo of the swinging door, and across the carpet, walking with the utmost delicacy and precision, stalks Four or Five or Oscar. He sits down on the floor beside me, regarding my long legs, my old jumper, and my floppy arms, with a purely practical interest. Which part of this large male body will form the most appropriate lap? Usually he settles for the chest. Whereupon he springs up and there is a feeling of cold fur [...] and the tip of an icy nose, thrust against my wrist and a positive tattoo of purrs. And I no longer wonder what life is all about.
Beverley NicholsTags: cats meaning-of-life
Long experience has taught me that people who do not like geraniums have something morally unsound about them. Sooner or later you will find them out; you will discover that they drink, or steal books, or speak sharply to cats. Never trust a man or a woman who is not passionately devoted to geraniums.
Beverley NicholsTags: gardening gardens geraniums
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