The Sweet Dove Died Quotes

“Yet there was no reason why one’s death should not, in its own way, be as elegant as one’s life, and one would do everything possible to make it so.”
― Barbara Pym, The Sweet Dove Died

“Leonora liked to think of her life as calm of mind, all passion spent, or, more rarely, as emotion recollected in tranquillity.”
― Barbara Pym, The Sweet Dove Died

“Yet, when one came to think of it, the only flowers that were really perfect were those, like the peonies that went so well with one’s charming room, that possessed the added grace of having been presented to oneself.”
― Barbara Pym, The Sweet Dove Died

“Yes, I suppose one feels that life is only tolerable if one takes a romantic view of it,’ Leonora agreed.”
― Barbara Pym, The Sweet Dove Died