“Architecture without pain, art looked at in undiluted pleasure, enjoyment without anxiety, compunction, heartache: there is no beggar woman in the church door, no ragged child or sore animal in the square. The water is safe and the wallet is… — Sybille Bedford Copy Share
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 ragged child or sore animal in the square. The water is safe and the wallet is inside the pocket. There will be no missed plane connection. We are in a country where the curable ills are… — Sybille Bedford Copy Share
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)
