Lark Rise to Candleford Quotes

“There Laura spent many happy hours, supposed to be picking fruit for jam, but for the better part of the time reading or dreaming. One corner, overhung by a Samson tree and walled in with bushes and flowers, she called her 'green study'.”
― Flora Thompson, Lark Rise to Candleford

“Twas a still, calm night and the moon's pale light
Shone over hill and dale
When friends mute with grief stood around the deathbed
Of their loved, lost Lily Lyle.
Heart as pure as forest lily
Never knowing guile,
Had its home within the bosom
Of sweet Lily Lyle.”
― Flora Thompson, Lark Rise to Candleford

“Candleford Green was but a small village and there were fields and meadows and woods all around it. As soon as Laura crossed the doorstep, she could see some of these. But mere seeing from a distance did not satisfy her; she longed to go alone far into the fields and hear the birds singing, the brooks tinkling, and the wind rustling through the corn, as she had when a child. To smell things and touch things, warm earth and flowers and grasses, and to stand and gaze where no one could see her, drinking it all in.”
― Flora Thompson, Lark Rise to Candleford

“When I am dead and in my head
And all my bones are are rotten,
Take this book and think of me
And mind I'm not forgotten.”
― Flora Thompson, Lark Rise to Candleford

“One boy's a boy; two boys be half a boy, and three boys be no boy at all', ran the old country saying.”
― Flora Thompson, Lark Rise to Candleford

“Traditions and customs which had lasted for centuries did not die out in a moment.”
― Flora Thompson, Lark Rise to Candleford: A Trilogy

“No book's too old for anybody who is able to enjoy it, and none too young, either, for that matter. Let her read what she likes.”
― Flora Thompson, Lark Rise to Candleford

“People were poorer and had not the comforts, amusements, or knowledge we have today; but they were happier.”
― Flora Thompson, Lark Rise to Candleford

“No, I be-ant expectin' nothin', but I be so yarnin”
― Flora Thompson, Lark Rise to Candleford

“There is something exhilarating about pay-day, even when the pay is poor and already mortgaged for necessities. With”
― Flora Thompson, Lark Rise to Candleford: A Trilogy

“to make up in an hour for all their wasted yesterdays.”
― Flora Thompson, Lark Rise to Candleford: A Trilogy

“The human eye loves to rest upon wide expanses of pure colour: the moors in the purple heyday of the heather, miles of green downland, and the sea when it lies calm and blue and boundless, all delight it; but to some none of these, lovely though they all are, can give the same satisfaction of spirit as acres upon acres of golden corn. There is both beauty and bread and the seeds of bread for future generations.”
― Flora Thompson, Lark Rise to Candleford

“Many of the great eaters grew very stout in later life; but this caused them no uneasiness; they regarded their [Pg 390] expanding girth as proper to middle age. Thin people were not admired. However cheerful and energetic they might appear, they were suspected of 'fretting away their fat' and warned that they were fast becoming 'walking miseries'.”
― Flora Thompson, Lark Rise to Candleford: A Trilogy

“La gente era más pobre entonces y carecía de las comodidades, las diversiones y los conocimientos que tenemos hoy en día; y a pesar de todo, eran más felices. Lo que parece sugerir que la felicidad depende en mayor medida del estado de la mente —y quizás del cuerpo— que de las circunstancias y eventos que nos rodean.”
― Flora Thompson, Lark Rise to Candleford

“You don't want to be poor and look poor, too,' they would say; and 'We've got our pride. Yes, we've got our pride.”
― Flora Thompson, Lark Rise to Candleford