There is nothing more frightening than the faces of people whom one does not know but who seem to know one, and… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Any writer worth his salt knows that only a small proportion of literature does nore than partly compensate people for the damage… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Women know the damnation of charity because the habit of civilization has always been to throw them cheap alms rather than give… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
I really write to find out what I know about something and what is to be known about something. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
I've never been able to do just one draft. That seems a wonderful thing. Do you know anyone who can? — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Here lies the real terror in the international war of ideologies; that a city knows not whom it entertains. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
There is one common condition for the lot of women in Western civilization and all other civilizations that we know about for… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
To every man in the world there is one person of whom he knows little: whom he would never recognize if he… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
My memory is certainly in my hands. I can remember things only if I have a pencil and I can write with… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
... A La Recherche du Temps Perdu is like a beautiful hand with long fingers reaching out to pluck a perfect fruit,… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
No one can write a best-seller by taking thought. The slightest touch of insincerity blurs its appeal. The writer who keeps his… — 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
