Has beens Quotes by Rebecca West

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

“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

“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

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

Christianity must be regarded not as a final revelation but as a phase of revelation.

— Rebecca West

Art and propaganda have this much connection, that if a propaganda makes art impossible, it is clearly damned.

— Rebecca West

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

Like all bad drivers, he [Henry Andrews] thought he was the best driver in the world...

— Rebecca West

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

Humanity is never more sphinxlike than when it is expressing itself.

— Rebecca West

[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

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

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

Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.

— Rebecca West

... 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