Lady Cynthia Asquith
Lady Cynthia Mary Evelyn Asquith (née Charteris; 27 September 1887 – 31 March 1960) was an English writer and socialite, known for her ghost stories and diaries. She also wrote novels, edited a number of anthologies, wrote for children and covered the British Royal family.
Quotes
[edit]- Oh why was I born for this time? Before one is thirty to know more dead than living people.
- Diary entry, 11 November 1915
- I am beginning to rub my eyes at the prospect of peace. I think it will require more courage than anything that has gone before. ... One will have to look at long vistas again, instead of short ones, and one will at last fully recognise that the dead are not only dead for the duration of the war.
- Diary entry, 7 October 1918
- Diaries, 1915–1918 (Hutchinson of London, 1968)
Disputed
[edit]- I use the word smile for lack of a better word, but how to convey the beauty of the indefinable expression that transfigured that time-worn face? Tender triumph: gentle joy: rapturous reverence. What mystery did I witness? It was like iron frost yielding to sunshine — the thawing of grief in the dawn-radiance of some unsurmisable redemption.
- "The Corner Shop", attributed to Cynthia Asquith in Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories (ISIS Large Print, 1987) p. 49. Attributed to C. L. Ray in Helen Hoke (ed.) Terrors, Terrors, Terrors (USA: Franklin Watts, 1979) pp. 165–66
