If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on its headstone might well be: 'It seemed like a good… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
every human activity, whether it be love, philosophy, art, or revolution, is carried on with a special intensity in Paris. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
To make laws is a human instinct that arises as soon as food and shelter have been ensured, among all peoples, everywhere. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
It is a great pity that every human being does not, at an early stage of his life, have to write a… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Human beings are mercifully so constituted as to be able to conceal from themselves what they intend to do until they are… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, all gatherings convened for the betterment of the human lot show a tendency to gas themselves, and not with laughing-gas either. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Music is part of human life and partakes of the human tragedy. There is much more music in the world than is… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Destiny is another name for humanity's half-hearted yet persistent search for death. Again and again peoples have had the chance to live… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Anthologies are mischievous things. Some years ago there was a rage for chemically predigested food, which was only suppressed when doctors pointed… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
works of art feel towards human beings exactly as we do towards ghosts. The transparency of spectres, the diffuseness in space which… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
I see the main problem of my life, and indeed anybody's life, as the balancing of competitive freedoms ... a sense of mutual obligations… — Rebecca West Copy Share
“There is, of course, no reason for the existence of the male sex except that sometimes one needs help with moving the piano.” — Rebecca West Copy Share
“At the top of a hill our automobile stuck in a snowdrift. Peasants ran out of a cottage near by, shouting with laughter because… — Rebecca West Copy Share
We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the… — Rebecca West Copy Share
Christianity must be regarded not as a final revelation but as a phase of revelation. — Rebecca West Copy Share
Art and propaganda have this much connection, that if a propaganda makes art impossible, it is clearly damned. — Rebecca West Copy Share
The American struggle for the vote was much more difficult than the English for the simple reason that it was much more easy. — Rebecca West Copy Share
Like all bad drivers, he [Henry Andrews] thought he was the best driver in the world... — Rebecca West Copy Share
The childhood of the individual and the race is full of fears, and panic-stricken attempts to avert what is feared by placating the gods… — Rebecca West Copy Share
[On Jane Austen:] To believe her limited in range because she was harmonious in method is as sensible as to imagine that when the… — Rebecca West Copy Share
a good oyster cannot please the palate as acutely as a bad one can revolt it, and a good oyster cannot make him who… — Rebecca West Copy Share
If there is a God, I don't think He would demand that anyone bow down or stand up to Him. I often have a… — Rebecca West Copy Share
Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience. — Rebecca West Copy Share
... there has never been a period in history when there have been necessary killings which has not been instantly followed by a period… — Rebecca West Copy Share
