Alice Meynell Quotes


Children have a fastidiousness that time is slow to cure. It is to be wondered, for example, whether if the elderly were half as hungry as children are they would yet find so many things at table to be detestable.


Citations

Meynell, Alice. The Children. John Lane, 1897, p. 55.

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Alice Meynell
Alice Meynell
  • Born: October 11, 1847
  • Died: November 27, 1922
  • Nationality: English
  • Profession: Poet

Alice Christiana Gertrude Meynell was a British writer, editor, critic, and suffragist, now remembered mainly as a poet.