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> [Nature is not silent, and never was a name more derisively inappropriate than when we speak of these non-human creatures who hoot and crow and bray as the dumb animals.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winifred-holtby/nature-is-not-silent-and-never-was-a-name-more-derisively/)

[Winifred Holtby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winifred-holtby/)

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## More by Winifred Holtby

> [it is the brevity of life which makes it tolerable; its experiences have value because they have an end.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winifred-holtby/it-is-the-brevity-of-life-which-makes-it-tolerable-its-experiences/)

[Winifred Holtby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winifred-holtby/)

> [You are quite, quite wrong if you think that ... I find your happiness painful. What matters is that happiness - the golden day…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winifred-holtby/you-are-quite-quite-wrong-if-you-think-that-i-find-your-happiness/)

[Winifred Holtby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winifred-holtby/)

> [Love needs the stiffening of respect, the give and take of equality.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winifred-holtby/love-needs-the-stiffening-of-respect-the-give-and-take-of-equality/)

[Winifred Holtby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winifred-holtby/)

> [Sorrow and frustration have their power. The world is moved by people with great discontents. Happiness is a drug. It can make men blind…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winifred-holtby/sorrow-and-frustration-have-their-power-the-world-is-moved-by-people/)

[Winifred Holtby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winifred-holtby/)

> [There's never been a lack of men willing to die bravely. The trouble is to find a few able to live sensibly.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winifred-holtby/there-s-never-been-a-lack-of-men-willing-to-die-bravely-the-trouble/)

[Winifred Holtby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winifred-holtby/)

> [I advise nobody to drown sorrow in cocoa. It is bad for the figure and it does not alleviate the sorrow.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winifred-holtby/i-advise-nobody-to-drown-sorrow-in-cocoa-it-is-bad-for-the-figure-and/)

[Winifred Holtby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winifred-holtby/)

> [What a strange distance there is between ill people and well ones.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winifred-holtby/what-a-strange-distance-there-is-between-ill-people-and-well-ones/)

[Winifred Holtby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winifred-holtby/)

> [The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation; it is understanding.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winifred-holtby/the-crown-of-life-is-neither-happiness-nor-annihilation-it-is/)

[Winifred Holtby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winifred-holtby/)

> [public work brings a vicarious but assured sense of immortality. We may be poor, weak, timid, in debt to our landlady, bullied by our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winifred-holtby/public-work-brings-a-vicarious-but-assured-sense-of-immortality-we/)

[Winifred Holtby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winifred-holtby/)

> [Everybody's tragedy is somebody's nuisance.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winifred-holtby/everybody-s-tragedy-is-somebody-s-nuisance/)

[Winifred Holtby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winifred-holtby/)

> [I can't think why I was cursed with this inordinate desire to write, if the high gods weren't going to give me some more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winifred-holtby/i-can-t-think-why-i-was-cursed-with-this-inordinate-desire-to-write/)

[Winifred Holtby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winifred-holtby/)

> [If you are rich, you have lovely cars, and jars full of flowers, and books in rows, and a wireless, and the best sort…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winifred-holtby/if-you-are-rich-you-have-lovely-cars-and-jars-full-of-flowers-and/)

[Winifred Holtby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winifred-holtby/)

> [What with the reviews of critics, the sarcasms of one's friends, the reproaches of one's own taste, there's precious little peace after publishing a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winifred-holtby/what-with-the-reviews-of-critics-the-sarcasms-of-one-s-friends-the/)

[Winifred Holtby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winifred-holtby/)

> [If we haven't a grouch against Fortune, we seem unable to avoid one against ourselves.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winifred-holtby/if-we-haven-t-a-grouch-against-fortune-we-seem-unable-to-avoid-one/)

[Winifred Holtby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winifred-holtby/)

> [The world, with all its beauty and adventure, its richness and variety, is darkened by cruelty. Death, if it ends the loveliness, the adventure,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winifred-holtby/the-world-with-all-its-beauty-and-adventure-its-richness-and-variety/)

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