How idiotic civilization is! Why be given a body if you have to keep it shut up in a case like a… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools. With mushrooms it is so… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
I really only have Perfect Fun with myself. Other people won't stop and look at the things I want to look at… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
Letters are the real curse of my existence. I hate to write them: I have to. If I don't, there they are… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
if one really does try to find out why it is that people don't leave each other, one discovers a mystery. It… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
conversation is like a dear little baby that is brought in to be handed round. You must rock it, nurse it, keep… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
When I say "I fear" - don't let it disturb you, dearest heart. We all fear when we are in waiting-rooms. Yet… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
“Shadow children, thin and small, Now the day is left behind, You are dancing on the wall, On the curtains, on the blind.” — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
“Oh, with you, I could conquer the world - oh, with you I could catch hold of the moon like a little silver sixpence.” — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
“I have made it a rule of my life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy...… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
“Leila was sure ifhe partner didn't come and she had to listen to that marvellous music and to watch the others sliding, gliding over… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
England is merely an island of beef swimming in a warm gulf stream of gravy. — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
Perhaps it does not matter so very much what it is one loves in this world. But love something one must. — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
Ah, what happiness it is to be with people who are all happy, to press hands, press cheeks, smile into eyes. — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
To acknowledge the presence of fear is to give birth to failure. — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
