Top 11 Quotes & Sayings by Nancy Spain

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English broadcaster Nancy Spain.

Last updated on November 8, 2024.

Nancy Brooker Spain was a prominent English broadcaster and journalist. She was a columnist for the Daily Express, She magazine, and the News of the World in the 1950s and 1960s. She also appeared on many radio broadcasts, particularly on Woman's Hour and My Word!, and later as a panelist on the television programmes What's My Line? and Juke Box Jury. Spain died in a plane crash near Aintree racecourse while travelling to the 1964 Grand National.

English - Broadcaster | September 13, 1917 - 1964

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The world of books: romantic, idle, shiftless world so beautiful, so cheap compared with living.

Nancy Spain

Everything begins in Paris.

Nancy Spain

I like a new clean book, freshly bound, particularly when I am the first to read it. I like dirty books - where other people have been before me, slipping fried eggs between the pages as markers - rather less.

Nancy Spain

I only really love a book when I have read it at least four times.

Nancy Spain

In love' is for the romantic. 'Love' for the realist.

Nancy Spain

It is a city of villages, closely connected, each village dedicated to a different way of life.

Nancy Spain

There are people whom one loves immediately and forever. Even to know they are alive in the world with one is quite enough.

Nancy Spain

Ireland is a wonderful place to write in. Even although the atmosphere was so Faith-laden that I was often worried that I was not writing a book to the glory of God, I had to admit that words flowed from my pen like all-get-out. To be honest, there is nothing to do in Ireland but write.

Nancy Spain

Only a fool would make the bed every day.

Nancy Spain

Whenever I have tried to do anything For Money it has always led me astray.

Nancy Spain

I have never been able to wear a hat. My hair is peculiar in that it grows so fast that any hat I put on instantly leaps from my head.

Nancy Spain