39 Quotations by Rebecca West
- 1. All good biography, as all good fiction, comes down to the study of original sin, of our inherent di ...
- 2. All men should have a drop of treason in their veins, if nations are not to go soft like so many sle ...
- 3. Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.
- 4. Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more li ...
- 5. But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example.
- 6. Charity is an ugly trick. It is a virtue grown by the rich on the graves of the poor. Unless it is a ...
- 7. Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so ...
- 8. God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.
- 9. Great music is in a sense serene; it is certain of the values it asserts.
- 10. He is every other inch a gentleman.
- 11. He was every other inch a gentleman.
- 12. I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call m ...
- 13. I take it as a prime cause of the present confusion of society that it is too sickly and too doubtfu ...
- 14. I wonder if we are all wrong about each other, if we are just composing unwritten novels about the p ...
- 15. I...have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is. I only know that people call me a f ...
- 16. If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on its headstone might well be: It seemed a go ...
- 17. In England and America a beard usually means that its owner would rather be considered venerable tha ...
- 18. It is a great pity that every human being does not, at an early stage of his life, have to write a h ...
- 19. It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
- 20. Just how difficult it is to write a biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers ...
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