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
I wonder if we are all wrong about each other, if we are just composing unwritten novels about the people we meet? — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
I believe if people are looking for the truth, the truth of the Christian religion will come out and meet them. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
It isn't only living people who die, it is great stretches of living, which can die even when the people who lived… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
It's my profession to bring people from various outlying districts of the mind to the normal. There seems to be a general… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
It is not possible that a just God should forgive people who are wicked because another person who was good endured agony… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized that… — 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
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
There was too much hatred in the world; it was manifestly as dangerous as gunpowder, yet people let it lie about, in… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Margaret Thatcher has one great advantage - she is a daughter of the people and looks trim, as the daughter of the… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
But just as it sometimes happens that the most temperate people, who have never acquired the habit of drinking alcohol, or even… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
I do not myself find it agreeable to be 90, and I cannot imagine why it should seem so to other people.… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Yes,” said Mamma, “this is the worst of life, that love does not give us common sense but is a sure way… — 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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