E. F. Benson Quotes

There's a lot to be said for loafing if you know how to do it gracefully.

Believe me, nobody likes to loaf more than me.

When I have time off, all I want to do is do nothing.

When not working, my days are lazy.

Pham Nuwen plunked himself down, stretching indolently.

What I like doing best is Nothing.

I don't spend too much time just kicking back.

As I have gotten older, I've discovered the joys of being lazy.

Fishing seems to be the favorite form of loafing.

Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.

I've never understood activity holidays since we seem to have far too much activity in our daily lives as it is. Find a culture where loafing is the order of the day and where they don't understand our need to be constantly doing things. Find somewhere you can have a hammock holiday.

They built these little tanning booths for Brooke and I to do nothing but lay down and tan all over.

I am having a good time doing nothing.

I think it's a pretty good day if I can get through it without lifting a finger.

I'm a very lazy, stay-at-home kind of girl.

I'm perfectly happy doing nothing. I'll hang around the house and take the dog to the park.

I am so busy doing nothing... that the idea of doing anything - which as you know, always leads to something - cuts into the nothing and then forces me to have to drop everything.

Nothing is my guiltiest pleasure. I love it. I love doing it. I love planning to do it, I love loafing and pottering and chilling and daydreaming.

I didn't work hard to sit down and not work.

What would be really difficult is to be sitting on a beach. There's vacations, and there's vegetations. I don't do well vegetating.

I'd love sloth. I wish sloth would come home and visit me once in a while. I don't consider laziness a sin at all.

I like doing nothing, actually. Doing nothing is better thing when I am not working.

There isn't much to say. I haven't been at all deedy.

Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.

I am capable of being idle.