Before Lunch Quotes

“If it were in his destiny, which he felt it never would be, to love and be loved, he could imagine a way of love quite different from what he had just seen.”
― Angela Thirkell, Before Lunch

“Miss Starter said that she felt herself that quite enough was done for refugees and there was a woman psychopath in Surbiton who had done wonders for a friend of hers.”
― Angela Thirkell, Before Lunch

“He had been so well brought up, first by an autocratic mother and then by an autocratic wife, not to speak of a black period during which he had been brought up by both ladies, who sometimes used him as a pawn against each other and at other times joined forces to crush him, that he had a feeling of guilt on those very rare occasions when he set out to enjoy himself in his own way.”
― Angela Thirkell, Before Lunch

“This beer is the best I have ever tasted. Where do we get it? I must have a cask to hold my high revels."

"It's not in casks, sir, it's bottled, from the Fleece down in the village. Light Lager."

"We must always have this beer. I know beer. Few men know it as I do and this is BEER."

"It's what we always have, sir."

"It may be, it may be," said Mr Middleton rather crossly. "No thanks, no more. It is not so good now as it was before.”
― Angela Thirkell, Before Lunch