The future of human society. Had it made an irrevocably false start? The compass error that gets harder to correct with every mile you go? — Sybille Bedford Copy Share Image
In Europe, where human relations like clothes are supposed to last, one's got to be wearable. In France one has to be interesting, in… — Sybille Bedford Copy Share Image
I write because I'm a writer. It is rather like cooking: to make something out of the raw material at hand. — Sybille Bedford Copy Share Image
“Architecture without pain, art looked at in undiluted pleasure, enjoyment without anxiety, compunction, heartache: there is no beggar woman in the church door, no… — Sybille Bedford Copy Share Image
I detest . . . anything over-cooked, over-herbed, over-sauced, over elaborate. Nothing can go very far wrong at table as long as there is… — Sybille Bedford Copy Share Image
The future of human society. Had it made an irrevocably false start? The compass error that gets harder to correct with every mile you… — Sybille Bedford Copy Share Image
“A devastating, a traumatic defeat, [to Germany] and the Danes might well have fallen into a Treaty of Versailles mentality. Mysteriously, they did not.… — Sybille Bedford Copy Share Image
public opinion, the sum of private opinions, does matter, can matter often for good. — Sybille Bedford Copy Share Image
“War and the threat of war begin when all is not well at home. Countries that solve their own problems are no problem to… — Sybille Bedford Copy Share Image
All food is the gift of the gods and has something of the miraculous, the egg no less than the truffle. — Sybille Bedford Copy Share Image
A part, a large part, of traveling is an engagement of the ego v. the world. The world is hydra headed, as old as… — Sybille Bedford Copy Share Image
One does odd things. You see, when one's young one doesn't feel part of it yet, the human condition; one does things because they… — Sybille Bedford Copy Share Image
![“A devastating, a traumatic defeat, [to Germany] and the Danes might well have fallen into a Treaty of Versailles mentality. Mysteriously, they did not. Instead they redirected their aims and will; they did turn inward. They changed their agriculture from grain to dairy products, they set up…” quote by Sybille Bedford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/5c8/sybille-bedford-33740_dairy-products_a-devastating-a-traumatic-defeat-to-germ_1971522.jpg)
