“ You cannot have too many aconites. They cost, as I said before, about fifty shillings a thousand. A thousand will make a brave splash of colour, which lasts a month. If you can afford ten thousand, yo… Beverley Nichols
“ Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose. Beverley Nichols
“ 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. Beverley Nichols
“ 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… Beverley Nichols
“ A garden without cats, it will be generally agreed, can scarcely deserve to be called a garden at all...much of the magic of the heather beds would vanish if, as we bent over them, there was no chance… Beverley Nichols
“ Let us be honest: most of us rather like our cats to have a streak of wickedness. I should not feel quite easy in the company of any cat that walked around the house with a saintly expression. Beverley Nichols
“ I think it is silly to be amateur about anything when one has an opportunity of learning. Beverley Nichols
