Rebecca West Quotes & Quotations

Rebecca West Quotes

» But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example.

» Now different races and nationalities cherish different ideals of society that stink in each other's nostrils with an offensiveness beyond the power of any but the most monstrous private deed.

» We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth given up by a glass of brandy.

» She saw she had fallen into the hands of one of those doctors who have strayed too far from apparent in the direction of the soul.

» The main difference between men and woman is that men are lunatics and woman are idiots.

» I wonder if we are all wrong about each other, if we are just composing unwritten novels about the people we meet?

» Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.

» All men should have a drop of treason in their veins, if nations are not to go soft like so many sleepy pears.

» Men must be capable of imagining and executing and insisting on social change if they are to reform or even maintain civilization, and capable too of furnishing the rebellion which is sometimes necessary if society is not to perish of immobility.

» Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know they real truth about his or her love affairs.

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