Famous Quotes / Freya Stark
14 Quotations by Freya Stark
- 1. Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like ...
- 2. All our acts have sacramental possibilities.
- 3. All the feeling which my father could not put into words was in his hand -- any dog, child, or horse ...
- 4. Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.
- 5. I have met charming people, lots who would be charming if they hadn't got a complex about the Britis ...
- 6. Pain and fear and hunger are effects of causes which can be foreseen and known: but sorrow is a debt ...
- 7. Perhaps the best function of parenthood is to teach the young creature to love with safety, so that ...
- 8. Style is something peculiar to one person; it expresses one personality and one only; it cannot be s ...
- 9. The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stup ...
- 10. The most ominous of fallacies: the belief that things can be kept static by inaction.
- 11. The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. ...
- 12. There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.
- 13. Things good in themselves ... perfectly valid in the integrity of their origins, become fetters if t ...
- 14. Time is the sea in which men grow, are born, or die.