P L Travers Quotes

“I'll stay till the wind changes.”
― P. L. Travers

“At the Zoo? Me? A quiet, orderly person who knows that early to bed, early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise?”
― P. L. Travers

“One and one makes two,' she declared. 'And two halves make a whole. And Faithful Friends should be together, never kept apart.”
― P.L. Travers, Mary Poppins in the Park

“Feed the Birds, Tuppence a Bag!”
― P. L. Travers

“None of your business," snapped Mary Poppins. "And it's rude to whisper.”
― P. L. Travers

“Trouble trouble and it will trouble you!”
― P. L. Travers

“On one occasion, an ancient great-aunt of mine, hieratically assuming a head-dress of feather and globules of jet, required me to accompany her to the beehives. ‘But you surely don't need a hat, Aunt Jane! They're only at the end of the garden.’ ‘It is the custom,’ she said, grandly. ‘Put a scarf over your head.’ Arrived, she stood in silence for a moment. Then — ‘I have to tell you,’ she said, formally, ‘that King George V is dead. You may be sorry, but I am not. He was not an interesting man. Besides,’ she added — as though the bees needed the telling! — ‘everyone has to die’.”
― P.L. Travers, What the Bee Knows: Reflections on Myth, Symbol and Story