The Cazalet Chronicles Quotes

“When people marry awful people, just be grateful that you aren’t them – either of them.”
― Elizabeth Jane Howard, The Cazalet Chronicles: Five Novels in One Collection

“Hugh interrupted at that point by saying that they were not going to send Laura away anywhere – he didn’t approve of boarding schools for girls. ‘I’m not sure that I think they’re a good thing for anyone,’ he ended.”
― Elizabeth Jane Howard, The Cazalet Chronicles: Five Novels in One Collection

“ups. A clash of personalities between a group of people who aren’t really cut out to be in business anyway.”
― Elizabeth Jane Howard, The Cazalet Chronicles: Five Novels in One Collection

“God can do without you congratulating yourself for loving Him.”
― Elizabeth Jane Howard, The Cazalet Chronicles: Five Novels in One Collection

“Goodness”
― Elizabeth Jane Howard, The Cazalet Chronicles: Five Novels in One Collection

“Of course”
― Elizabeth Jane Howard, The Cazalet Chronicles: Five Novels in One Collection

“suppose that it’s what adventures in real life usually are”
― Elizabeth Jane Howard, The Cazalet Chronicles: Five Novels in One Collection

“In the taxi it occurred to him that in all those hours”
― Elizabeth Jane Howard, The Cazalet Chronicles: Five Novels in One Collection

“Her idea of a good conversation was commenting on people”
― Elizabeth Jane Howard, The Cazalet Chronicles: Five Novels in One Collection

“What on earth’s the point of wanting things if you don’t mind whether you get them or not?”
― Elizabeth Jane Howard, The Cazalet Chronicles: Five Novels in One Collection

“I don’t want to do good to people: I want to be done good to.”
― Elizabeth Jane Howard, The Cazalet Chronicles: Five Novels in One Collection

“War is quite a leveller”
― Elizabeth Jane Howard, The Cazalet Chronicles: Five Novels in One Collection

“I suppose in a war one really has to choose between being frightened or being bored.”
― Elizabeth Jane Howard, The Cazalet Chronicles: Five Novels in One Collection

“it was possible to believe that someone was gone”
― Elizabeth Jane Howard, The Cazalet Chronicles: Five Novels in One Collection

“mean. There’s a sort of trap”
― Elizabeth Jane Howard, The Cazalet Chronicles: Five Novels in One Collection

“I thought Mrs Clutterworth looked as though everything that she didn’t like had happened to her.”
― Elizabeth Jane Howard, The Cazalet Chronicles: Five Novels in One Collection

“she had prayed that she might get better – for Hugh”
― Elizabeth Jane Howard, The Cazalet Chronicles: Five Novels in One Collection

“that I mustn’t judge other people by my standards – by how I am.’ ‘It always seems to get in the way of love”
― Elizabeth Jane Howard, The Cazalet Chronicles: Five Novels in One Collection

“that awful evening with Louise … he felt so ghastly when he thought about that”
― Elizabeth Jane Howard, The Cazalet Chronicles: Five Novels in One Collection

“You think I mind far too much about appearances”
― Elizabeth Jane Howard, The Cazalet Chronicles: Five Novels in One Collection

“Want to know everything? I wouldn’t have time for everything. In any case”
― Elizabeth Jane Howard, The Cazalet Chronicles: Five Novels in One Collection

“What I find peculiarly irritating is that nobody will say what rape actually is. If there’s a danger of it”
― Elizabeth Jane Howard, The Cazalet Chronicles: Five Novels in One Collection

“All the same”
― Elizabeth Jane Howard, The Cazalet Chronicles: Five Novels in One Collection

“I think it’s awfully difficult for people of our age. We need people to be in love with”
― Elizabeth Jane Howard, The Cazalet Chronicles: Five Novels in One Collection

“What I hate most is having to be against something all the time. But if you’re in a minority”
― Elizabeth Jane Howard, The Cazalet Chronicles: Five Novels in One Collection

“Why do you mind about Beth dying”
― Elizabeth Jane Howard, The Cazalet Chronicles: Five Novels in One Collection

“They’re human beings!’ Polly said at last. ‘I don’t want to think about them like that. I just think about them as Them. A whole great mass of people who are ruining our lives.”
― Elizabeth Jane Howard, The Cazalet Chronicles: Five Novels in One Collection

“She felt she was a bottomless pit of memories”
― Elizabeth Jane Howard, The Cazalet Chronicles: Five Novels in One Collection