L. P. Hartley Quotes

Even the most impassioned devotee of the ghost story would admit that the taste for it is slightly a...

Believing himself to be unseen by other bathers, he gave himself up to being alone with his body. He...

If personality expresses itself by acts of discrimination, and discrimination, besides being taboo, ...

To see things as they really were--what an empoverishment!

..the past kept pricking at me and I knew that all the elements of those nineteen days in July were ...

I was aware of something stable in his nature. Ha game me a feeling of security, as if nothing I sai...

I had never met a lord before, nor had I ever expected to meet one. It didn't matter what he looked ...

To my mind's eye, my buried memories of Brandham Hall are like effects of chiaroscuro, patches of li...

If my twelve-year-old self, of whom I had grown rather fond, thinking about him, were to reproach me...

No, I thought, growing more rebellious, life has its own laws and it is for me to defend myself agai...

Detective-story writers give this thrill by exploiting the resources of the possible; however improb...