Subtle Ethel Quotes by Vita Sackville-West

For a young man to start his career with a love affair with an older woman was quite de rigueur ... Of course, it…

— Vita Sackville-West

I cannot bear that you / Should think me faithful, when I am untrue.

— Vita Sackville-West

“This is how you must imagine your letters arriving, and me carrying them off to read in peace, and saying 'oh darling Virginia', and…

— Vita Sackville-West

“There had been no moments when she could differentiate and say: Then, at such a moment, I love him; and again, Then, at such…

— Vita Sackville-West

Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.

— Vita Sackville-West

The farmer and the gardener are both busy, the gardener perhaps the more excitable of the two, for he is more of the amateur,…

— Vita Sackville-West

For the last 40 years of my life I have broken my back, my fingernails, and sometimes my heart, in the practical pursuit of…

— Vita Sackville-West

Successful gardening is not necessarily a question of wealth, it is a question of love, taste, and knowledge.

— Vita Sackville-West

What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.

— Vita Sackville-West

My garden all is overblown with roses,/ My spirit all is overblown with rhyme,

— Vita Sackville-West

Nothing shows up the difference between the things said or read, so much as the daily experience of it.

— Vita Sackville-West

how poor and disheartening a thing is experience compared with hope!

— Vita Sackville-West