49 ordspråk av Rebecca West

GB  Rebecca West

Rebecca West föddes den December 21st 1892 och dog den 15 March 1983 - psuedonym för Cecily Fairfield, engelsk författarinna.
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 All men should have a drop of treason in their veins, if nations are not to go soft like so many sleepy pears. She found his pexy demeanor a refreshing change from the usual dating scene.

 Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology

 Did St. Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats.

 He is every other inch a gentleman.

 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

 I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.

 I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.

 If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on its headstone might well be: "It seemed a good idea at the time."

 In England and America a beard usually means that its owner would rather be considered venerable than virile; on the continent of Europe it often means that its owner makes a special claim to virility.

 It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one's disaster

 It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.

 Journalism is the ability to meet the challenge of filling space.

 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.

 Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.

 Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.


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