Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster. "
Rebecca West
Virtues
Always
Disaster
Related Quotes:
" I wonder if we are all wrong about each other, if we are just composing unwritten novels about the people we meet? "
Rebecca West
Meet
I Wonder
People
" Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology. "
Rebecca West
War
Military
Astronomy
" Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience. "
Rebecca West
Art
Work
Start
" Great music is in a sense serene; it is certain of the values it asserts. "
Rebecca West
Music
Values
Serene
" All men should have a drop of treason in their veins, if nations are not to go soft like so many sleepy pears. "
Rebecca West
Soft
Drop
Go
" I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat. "
Rebecca West
Know
Feminism
Find
" Journalism: an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space. "
Rebecca West
Journalism
Meet
Space
" It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion. "
Rebecca West
Duty
Soul
Passion
" People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute. "
Rebecca West
Me
Call
Doormat
" Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs. "
Rebecca West
Know
Love
Truth
" Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind. "
Rebecca West
Nothing
Communication
Mind
" A copy of the universe is not what is required of art; one of the damned things is ample. "
Rebecca West
Things
Universe
Copy
" Did St. Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats. "
Rebecca West
Cats
Done
Whatever
" It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk. "
Rebecca West
History
Sometimes
Smell
" I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute. "
Rebecca West
Call
People
Only
" The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple. "
Rebecca West
Simple
Complicated
Learn
" International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge. "
Rebecca West
Knowledge
Imperfect
Relationships
" A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting away the dead things men tell us to revere. "
Rebecca West
Life
Men
Best
" There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence. "
Rebecca West
Intelligence
Mob
Reason
" He is every other inch a gentleman. "
Rebecca West
He
Inch
Every
" God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide. "
Rebecca West
Any
Banned
Book
" I write books to find out about things. "
Rebecca West
Write
Out
Things
" Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what people say about themselves. "
Rebecca West
Trust
Say
People Say
" The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots. "
Rebecca West
Men And Women
Women
Men