Rebecca West Famous Quotes
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.
"The point is that nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth."
The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.
"There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time."
Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.
It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
"Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy but after a war it seems more like astrology."
Rebecca West Quotations
"Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words."
George Eliot
A great many college graduates come here thinking of lawyers as social engineers arguing the great Constitutional issues.
Archibald Cox
Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.
Anthony Hope
"Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything."
Henri Poincare
"Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife."
Kahlil Gibran
I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you cannot do something someone else has done though you might have done it if they hadn't.
Ernest Hemingway
"The trouble is that everyone talks about reforming others, and no one thinks about reforming himself."
Peter Alcantara
You will find it a very good practice always to verify your references sir.
Martin Routh
"I am the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys. THE BELOVED."
Song of Songs 21 Bible
"Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned."
William Congreve