Elizabeth Aston > Quotes

“One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love”
― Elizabeth Aston, The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy

“Authors go on writing books, and so we go on reading them. It is a sad state of affairs.”
― Elizabeth Aston, Mr. Darcy's Daughters

“Why did she want to stay in England? Because the history she was interested in had happened here, and buried deep beneath her analytical mind was a tumbled heap of Englishness in all its glory, or kings and queens, of Runnymede and Shakespeare's London, of hansom cabs and Sherlock Holmes and Watson rattling off into the fog with cries of 'The game's afoot,' of civil wars bestrewing the green land with blood, of spinning jennies and spotted pigs and Churchill and his country standing small and alone against the might of Nazi Germany. It was a mystery to her how this benighted land had produced so many great men and women, and ruled a quarter of the world and spread its language and law and democracy across the planet.”
― Elizabeth Aston, Writing Jane Austen

“Innocence might be its own reward, but when it boardered on naivete, if not stupidity, it was unforgivable.”
― Elizabeth Aston, Mr. Darcy's Daughters

“Sense is apt to fly out of the window when a girl falls in love.”
― Elizabeth Aston, Mr. Darcy's Daughters

“You'll meet someone else; there are more fish in the sea, as the saying is, than ever came out of it.”
― Elizabeth Aston, Mr. Darcy's Daughters

“People make one happy, not houses.”
― Elizabeth Aston, Mr. Darcy's Daughters

“Some young ladies meet a man and from there it is all plain sailing, but this is not the usual way it happens.”
― Elizabeth Aston, Mr. Darcy's Daughters

“When we are young, we make gods and goddesses of one another, then we soon come to realize that we are all merely human and imperfect.”
― Elizabeth Aston, The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy

“made”
― Elizabeth Aston, Children of Chance

“People aren’t the same when they’ve lived in India. It changes them, I’ve often noticed it.”
― Elizabeth Aston, Children of Chance

“because he’s so boring he makes you yawn just thinking about him.”
― Elizabeth Aston, Unholy Harmonies

“when you consider they didn’t grow up together.”
― Elizabeth Aston, The World, the Flesh & the Bishop: An English comedy

“Problems escaped from aren’t problems resolved,”
― Elizabeth Aston, Volcanic Airs: An English comedy

“You see,’ he continued, ‘I just don’t think most modern life forges your mind and heart and soul the way facing storms at sea in a fragile boat, or sailing beyond the limits of the known world once did. Look at the way my ancestors batted off to the Middle East and all across Europe. Terribly dangerous, and exciting and life-enhancing.”
― Elizabeth Aston, Brotherly Love: An English comedy

“The Brethren? Whatever for? Do they wash a lot? Baptisms, wet clothes, that sort of thing?’ ‘Of course not. It was a museum piece; they took it off to sell it. They’re very keen on money. I think they’re dishonest, too.”
― Elizabeth Aston, Children of Chance

“They had learned a lot in those lean times. Brilliant, gifted students, both of them, cosseted and given awards and appreciated; it had come as a rude shock. It had taught them to woo audiences, to ignore their surroundings, to welcome their listeners, however few; and to please them.”
― Elizabeth Aston, The World, the Flesh & the Bishop: An English comedy

“It’s the same with kids and a diet of coke, hamburgers and nasty little crunchy snacks. If they like it, why worry about them eating fruit and veg and other more demanding food? And I’ll tell you why worry, because otherwise their teeth will all fall out and they’ll all pop off early from degenerative diseases. You can’t thrive on pap, you know. Not in food, not in music, not in education, not in religion.”
― Elizabeth Aston, Unholy Harmonies