Caroline Blackwood Quotes

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“Great Granny Webster seemed to hate colours. Almost everything she owned was either black or dark brown.”
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“Aunt Lavinia always had a near-religious belief that it was wicked to inflict one's personal despair on others. Any display of self-pity or self-dissatisfaction she saw as a social cruelty that was very nearly criminal.”

— Caroline Blackwood

There is really nothing more unattractive than the sight of a young woman displaying a repulsive amount of arm.

— Caroline Blackwood

“As you get older no doubt you'll change automatically, just like I did. You will learn all the tricks. You will dress much better, and talk much more, and listen much less. And you'll start to realise that it never does one much good to take anything too seriously at all.”

— Caroline Blackwood

“She took one of her poodle's charcoal biscuits out of the packet and ate it herself. 'Either these are quite delicious or quite disgusting. Like many things in life, it's rather hard to tell which,' she said.”

— Caroline Blackwood

“She was playing with semantics. I felt certain that she understood the word "tip" in English. She enjoyed pretending that she thought I wanted the Duchess to be upside down with her face buried in the sewage of some manhole while her beautifully shod feet waved desperate high-heels in the air.”

— Caroline Blackwood

“Great Granny Webster seemed to hate colours. Almost everything she owned was either black or dark brown.”

— Caroline Blackwood

“I had hardly ever seen Great Granny Webster at that time, and yet her feelings interested me. She was little more to me than the silhouette of a formidable old woman dressed in black who appeared occasionally at family gatherings and made us feel that she was taking a dangerous risk with her upright spine when circumstances forced her to bend over and kiss her great-grandchildren.”

— Caroline Blackwood

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