Stella Gibbons said this quote

One of the disadvantages of almost universal education was the fact that all kinds of persons acquired a familiarity with one's favorite writers. It gave one a curious feeling it was like seeing a drunken stranger wrapped in one's dressing gown.

~ Stella Gibbons

Mary, you know I hate parties. My idea of hell is a very large party in a cold room where everybody has to play hockey properly.

~ Stella Gibbons

To tidy up takes time, and she wants all her time for wolfing books...

~ Stella Gibbons

She liked to watch her father as he read, and to listen to the smoothly rolling tones; she felt no curiosity about what the words meant. It was only Shakespeare and she was used to him.

~ Stella Gibbons