Francis Kilvert
Robert Francis Kilvert (3 December 1840 – 23 September 1879), known as Francis or Frank, was an English clergyman whose diaries reflected rural life in the 1870s, and were published over fifty years after his death.
Quotes
[edit]- William Plomer (ed.) Selections from the Diary of the Rev. Francis Kilvert, 3 vols. (London: Jonathon Cape, 1938–40)
- Of all noxious animals, too, the most noxious is a tourist. And of all tourists the most vulgar, ill-bred, offensive and loathsome is the British tourist.
- 5 April 1870
- The Vicar of St Ives says the smell of fish there is sometimes so terrific as to stop the church clock.
- 21 July 1870
- It is a fine thing to be out on the hills alone. A man can hardly be a beast or a fool alone on a great mountain.
- 29 May 1871
- An angel satyr walks these hills.
- 20 June 1871
- Why do I keep this voluminous journal? I can hardly tell. Partly because life seems to me such a curious and wonderful thing that it seems a pity that even such a humble and uneventful life as mine should pass altogether away without some such record as this, and partly too because I think the record may amuse and interest some who come after me.
- 4 November 1874
