Beverley Nichols

“I think it is silly to be amateur about anything when one has an opportunity of learning.”

“Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.”

“To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat.”

“The seed of a blue lupin will usually produce a blue lupin. But the seed of a blue-eyed man may produce a brown-eyed bore...especially if his wife has a taste for gigolos.”

“It was not till I experimented with seeds plucked straight from a growing plant that I had my first success...the first thrill of creation...the first taste of blood. This, surely, must be akin to the pride of paternity...indeed, many soured bachelors would wager that it must be almost as wonderful to see the first tiny crinkled leaves of one's first plant as to see the tiny crinkled face of one's first child.”