The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
All men should have a drop of treason in their veins, if nations are not to go soft like so many sleepy… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
I've never gone anywhere where the men have come up to my infantile expectations. I always have gone through life constantly being… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
The [nineteenth-century] young men who were Puritans in politics were anti-Puritans in literature. They were willing to die for the independence of… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Good God enlighten us! Which of these two belongs to the sterner sex - the man who sits in Whitehall all his… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
The happy marriage, which is the only proper nursery, is indissoluble. The unhappy marriage, which perpetually tells the child a bogey-man story… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
If ever peace is to be imposed on the world it will only be because a large number of men who could… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Marriage had certain commercial advantages. By it the man secures the exclusive right to the woman's body and by it, the woman… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
I do not think women understand how repelled a man feels when he sees a woman wholly absorbed in what she is… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
If there is to be any romance in marriage woman must be given every chance to earn a decent living at other… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Writers on the subject of August Strindberg have hitherto omitted to mention that he could not write. ... Strindberg, who was neither… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
One was kind, out of a bounty that could hardly be exhausted, to old governesses and gardeners, who could be relied upon… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
For some reason a nation feels as shy about admitting that it ever went forth to war for the sake of more… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
The word 'idiot' comes from a Greek root meaning private person. Idiocy is the female defect: intent on their private lives, women… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
There is nothing rarer than a man who can be trusted never to throw away happiness, however eagerly he sometimes grasps it.… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
All gambling is the telling of a fortune, but of a monstrously depleted fortune, empty of everything save one numerical circumstance, shorn… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Men must be capable of imagining and executing and insisting on social change if they are to reform or even maintain civilization,… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Whatever happens, never forget that people would rather be led to perdition by a man, than to victory by a woman. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
There is, of course, no reason for the existence of the male sex except that one sometimes needs help with moving the… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
sentences were used by man before words and still come with the readiness of instinct to his lips. They, and not words,… — 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
... when the Spaniards persecuted heretics they may have been crude, but they were not being unreasonable or unpractical. They were at… — 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
Christianity must be regarded not as a final revelation but as a phase of revelation. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Art and propaganda have this much connection, that if a propaganda makes art impossible, it is clearly damned. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
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 Image
Like all bad drivers, he [Henry Andrews] thought he was the best driver in the world... — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
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 Image
[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 Image
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 Image
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