Stanley Middleton > Quotes

“Everybody judges from the point of view of his own inadequacy.”
― Stanley Middleton, Holiday

“Here, at it again, he'd met, questioned, made friendly contact with a stranger when he ought to have been at home on his knees to his wife.”
― Stanley Middleton, Holiday

“The curtains by the window hung frozen by the heat.”
― Stanley Middleton, Holiday

“Tomorrow he'd see Meg, just as his Luddite ancestor met the hangman.”
― Stanley Middleton, Holiday

“When he was on holiday as a boy the first three days had passed slowly, but by Thursday time flew. Friday flashed a nothing. One bought presents; one ventured into the sea, but home, wash-day, errands reestablished themselves in the mind.”
― Stanley Middleton