Katherine Mansfield

“Oh,' said the little girl, 'my head's on your heart; I can hear it going. What a big heart you've got, father…

— Katherine Mansfield

The great thing to remember is we can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough.

— Katherine Mansfield

“Do you think there will be Mondays in heaven?' (...) 'Heaven will be one long Monday'.”

— Katherine Mansfield

Whenever I prepare for a journey I prepare as though for death. Should I never return, all is in order.

— Katherine Mansfield

Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change. So suffering must become Love. That is the mystery.

— Katherine Mansfield

England is merely an island of beef swimming in a warm gulf stream of gravy.

— Katherine Mansfield

The truth is friendship is every bit as sacred and eternal as marriage.

— Katherine Mansfield

“But, my darling, if you love me,' thought Miss Meadows, 'I don't mind how much it is. Love me as little as…

— Katherine Mansfield

What I feel for you can’t be conveyed in phrasal combinations; It either screams out loud or stays painfully silent but I…

— Katherine Mansfield

Ach, Tchekov! Why are you dead? Why can’t I talk to you in a big darkish room at late evening—where the light…

— Katherine Mansfield

In fact, isn't it a joy - there is hardly a greater one - to find a new book, a living book,…

— Katherine Mansfield

That is the fearful part of having been near death. One knows how easy it is to die. The barriers that are…

— Katherine Mansfield

I feel I must live alone, alone, alone - with artists only to touch the door. Every artist cuts off his ear…

— Katherine Mansfield

I am going to enjoy life in Paris I know. It is so human and there is something noble in the city...…

— Katherine Mansfield

I love the night. I love to feel the tide of darkness rising, slowly and slowly washing, turning over and over, lifting,…

— Katherine Mansfield

The truth is that every true admirer of the novels cherishes the happy thought that he alone - reading between the lines…

— Katherine Mansfield

“Don't forget that dragons are only guardians of treasures and one fights them for what they keep - not for themselves...”

— Katherine Mansfield

“Dark girls, fair girls were patting their hair, tying ribbons again, tucking handkerchiefs down the fronts of their bodices, smoothing marble-white gloves.…

— Katherine Mansfield

“Light as feathers the witches fly, The horn of the moon is plain to see; By a firefly under a jonquil flower…

— Katherine Mansfield

“I can never be perfectly certain whether Helen was got with child by Leonard Bast or by his fatal forgotten umbrella. All…

— Katherine Mansfield

“When Harry came I had his letters all ready, and the ring and a ducky little brooch he'd given me—a silver bird…

— Katherine Mansfield

When we can begin to take our failures nonseriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of…

— Katherine Mansfield

“When we reached home your cheeks were like roses, and your eyes were shining like stars, and you tried to tell Mummy…

— Katherine Mansfield

“What I feel for you can’t be conveyed in phrasal combinations; It either screams out loud or stays painfully silent but I…

— Katherine Mansfield

It's a terrible thing to be alone - yes it is - it is - but don't lower your mask until you…

— Katherine Mansfield

September is different from all other months. It is more magical. I feel the strange chemical change in the earth which produces…

— Katherine Mansfield

“Everything about her was sweet, pale like honey. You would not have been surprised to see a bee caught in the tangles…

— Katherine Mansfield

Now's the time when children's noses All become as red as roses And the colour of their faces Makes me think of…

— Katherine Mansfield

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinion of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you.…

— Katherine Mansfield

Isn't life,' she stammered, 'isn't life--' But what life was she couldn't explain. No matter. He quite understood. 'Isn't it, darling?' said…

— Katherine Mansfield

“She had become really quite expert, she thought, at listening as though she didn't listen, at sitting in other people's lives just…

— Katherine Mansfield

“We might be fifty, we might be five, So snug, so compact, so wise are we! Under the kitchen-table leg My knee…

— Katherine Mansfield

“He would sit very still on the doorstep And dream--O, that he had a friend! Somebody to come when he called them,…

— Katherine Mansfield

“It seemed to her that she had never known what the night was like before. Up till now it had been dark,…

— Katherine Mansfield

But one day we shall be rich, and the next poor. One day we shall dine in a palace and the next…

— Katherine Mansfield

When we begin to take our failures non-seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is immense importance…

— Katherine Mansfield

Oh, impossible. Fancy cream puffs so soon after breakfast. The very idea made one shudder. All the same, two minutes later Jose…

— Katherine Mansfield

“Query: Why am I so bitter against Life? And why do I see her as a rag-picker on the American cinema, shuffling…

— Katherine Mansfield

“Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. Life would…

— Katherine Mansfield