Jan Struther Quotes

A collection of quotes by Jan Struther.

Jan Struther was an English writer and hymn writer. She is best known for her character Mrs. Miniver, a fictional diary that portrayed the life of an English middle-class housewife during World War II. The book was a huge success and was later adapted into a film that won six Academy Awards. Struther's hymn "Lord of All Hopefulness" is widely sung in churches today. She was born Joyce Anstruther in 1901 and passed away in 1953.

Now heaven be thanked, I am out of love again! I have been l

Now heaven be thanked, I am out of love again! I have been long a slave, and now am free;

Jan Struther

Love

...[F]ireworks had for her a direct and magical appeal. Thei

...[F]ireworks had for her a direct and magical appeal. Their attraction was more complex than that of any other form of art. They had pattern and sequence, colour and sound, brilliance and mobility; they had suspense, surprise, and a faint hint of danger; above all, they had the supreme quality of transience, which puts the keenest edge on beauty and makes it touch some spring in the heart which more enduring excellences cannot reach.

Jan Struther

Art Beauty Fireworks

For to love, loveless, is a bitter pill: But to be loved, un

For to love, loveless, is a bitter pill: But to be loved, unloving, bitterer still.

Jan Struther

Love