The Priory Quotes

“As is usual with the ignorant, long words had the fascination for both girls that obstacles on the road have for a bad driver; instead of avoiding them they ran into them.”
― Dorothy Whipple, The Priory

“Love is happy only when it is confident. When it is humble, it is full of pain and misgiving; there is hardly any happiness to be had out of it at all.”
― Dorothy Whipple, The Priory

“Meanwhile, if these hours be dark at least do not let us sit deedless, like fools and fine gentlemen, thinking the common toil not good enough for us and beaten by the muddle; but rather let us work like good fellows trying by some dim candlelight to set our workshop ready against to-morrow’s daylight. William Morris.”
― Dorothy Whipple, The Priory

“The young do not know what they do when they withdraw themselves from the old. Life, light and hope seemed to have gone with these three.”
― Dorothy Whipple, The Priory