7 Quotes Tagged: p-l-travers

At the Zoo? Me? A quiet, orderly person who knows that early to bed, early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise?

Feed the Birds, Tuppence a Bag!

"None of your business," snapped Mary Poppins. "And it's rude to whisper."

I'll stay till the wind changes.

One and one makes two,' she declared. 'And two halves make a whole. And Faithful Friends should be together, never kept apart.

On one occasion, an ancient great-aunt of mine, hieratically assuming a head-dress of feather and globules of jet, required me to accompany her to the beehives. ‘But you surely don't need a hat, Aunt Jane! They're only at the end of the garden.’ ‘It is the custom,’ she said, grandly. ‘Put a scarf over your head.’ Arrived, she stood in silence for a moment. Then — ‘I have to tell you,’ she said, formally, ‘that King George V is dead. You may be sorry, but I am not. He was not an interesting man. Besides,’ she added — as though the bees needed the telling! — ‘everyone has to die’.

Trouble trouble and it will trouble you!