39 Quotations by Rebecca West
- 21. Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.
- 22. Man is a hating rather than a loving animal.
- 23. Men must be capable of imagining and executing and insisting on social change if they are to reform ...
- 24. Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.
- 25. Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.
- 26. Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.
- 27. Nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.
- 28. Now different races and nationalities cherish different ideals of society that stink in each other's ...
- 29. People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a pr ...
- 30. She saw she had fallen into the hands of one of those doctors who have strayed too far from apparent ...
- 31. The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.
- 32. There is a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them a ...
- 33. There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that i ...
- 34. There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vi ...
- 35. There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them ...
- 36. Those who foresee the future and recognize it as tragic are often seized upon by a madness which for ...
- 37. We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and mat ...
- 38. Women know the damnation of charity because the habit of civilization has always been to throw them ...
- 39. Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication betw ...
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