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    Barbara Pym

    Read through the most famous quotes from Barbara Pym




    Of course it's alright for librarians to smell of drink. ↗


    — Barbara Pym

    #librarians

    I realised that one might love him secretly with no hope of encouragement, which can be very enjoyable for the young or inexperienced. ↗


    — Barbara Pym

    #love

    We, my dear Mildred, are the observers of life. Let other people get married by all means, the more the merrier. . . . Let Dora marry if she likes. She hasn't your talent for observation. ↗


    — Barbara Pym

    #life

    Well, I haven't really anything to eat at home, I began, but then stopped, as I realised that a dreary revelation of the state of one's larder was hardly the way to respond to an invitation to dinner. ↗


    — Barbara Pym

    #home

    She had now reached an age when one starts looking for a husband rather more systematically than one does at nineteen or even at twenty-one. ↗


    — Barbara Pym

    #age

    How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it. ↗


    — Barbara Pym

    #absurd #delicious #everybody #how #should

    Those quotations were really quite obscure. Anyone can see that he is a very well read man. ↗


    — Barbara Pym

    #man #obscure #quite #quotations #read






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    Did you know about Barbara Pym?

    A blue plaque marking the cottage as an historic site was placed in 2006. This inspired her use of anthropologists as characters in her novels. A tragic undercurrent runs through some of the later novels especially Quartet in Autumn and The Sweet Dove Died.

    Her novel Quartet in Autumn (1977) was nominated for the Booker Prize that year and Barbara Pym was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. In the 1950s Barbara Pym wrote a series of social comedies of which the best known are Excellent Women (1952) and A Glass of Blessings (1958). Barbara Mary Crampton Pym (2 June 1913 – 11 January 1980) was an English novelist.

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