[On golf:] One of the most distressing defects of civilization. — Winifred Holtby Civilization Copy Share Image
no truth is strong enough to defeat a well-established legend. — Winifred Holtby Defeat Copy Share Image
the ruder lecturers are, and the louder their voices, the more converts they make to their opinions. — Winifred Holtby Lecturer Copy Share Image
But questioning does not mean the end of loving, and loving does not mean the abnegation of intelligence — Winifred Holtby Abnegation Copy Share Image
I advise nobody to drown sorrow in cocoa. It is bad for the figure and it does not alleviate the sorrow. — Winifred Holtby Advise Copy Share Image
It's the things you don't do, not the things you do, you feel most sorry for. — Winifred Holtby Feels Copy Share Image
“Oh, lovely world,' thought Sarah, in love with life and all its varied richness.” — Winifred Holtby Life Copy Share Image
If we haven't a grouch against Fortune, we seem unable to avoid one against ourselves. — Winifred Holtby Fortune Copy Share Image
Is this the final treachery of time, that the old become a burden upon the young? — Winifred Holtby Age Copy Share Image
A sense of humor is so handy, isn't it? It lets you see both sides of a question so that you never… — Winifred Holtby Both sides Copy Share Image
All adventuring is rash, and all innovations dangerous. But not nearly so dangerous as stagnation and dry rot. From grooves, cliques, clichés… — Winifred Holtby Adventuring Copy Share Image
I like a bit of color myself, I must say. At my time of life, if you wear nothing but black, people… — Winifred Holtby Bits Copy Share Image
These are they whose youth was violently severed by war and death; a word on the telephone, a scribbled line on paper,… — Winifred Holtby Absolute Copy Share Image
If you are rich, you have lovely cars, and jars full of flowers, and books in rows, and a wireless, and the… — Winifred Holtby Book Copy Share Image
I would, if I could, always feed to music. The singularly graceless action of thus filling one's body with roots and dead… — Winifred Holtby Action Copy Share Image
The world, with all its beauty and adventure, its richness and variety, is darkened by cruelty. Death, if it ends the loveliness,… — Winifred Holtby Adventure Copy Share Image
we are so little, so ignorant, so feeble an infant race crawling on a planet between immensities we haven't even begun to… — Winifred Holtby Congratulations Copy Share Image
Teachers have power. We may cripple them by petty economics; by Government regulations, by the foolish criticism of an uninformed press; but… — Winifred Holtby Cripples Copy Share Image
Question everyone in authority, and see that you get sensible answers to your questions ... questioning does not mean the end of… — Winifred Holtby Abnegation Copy Share Image
“For she was clever. It had not been a lie then, that ecstasy which had visited her when she read A Midsummer… — Winifred Holtby Last summer Copy Share Image
You are quite, quite wrong if you think that ... I find your happiness painful. What matters is that happiness - the… — Winifred Holtby Arrivals Copy Share Image
“Their language was an old wild language. They had known incredible loves and dark adventures and the twisted streets of alien cities.… — Winifred Holtby Adventure Copy Share Image
We're so busy resigning ourselves to the inevitable that we don't even ask if it is inevitable. We've got to have courage,… — Winifred Holtby Break Copy Share Image
it is better to take experience, to suffer, to love, and to remember than to walk unscathed between the fires. I've had… — Winifred Holtby Attraction Copy Share Image
“I am a feminist because I dislike everything that feminism implies. I desire an end to the whole business, the demands for… — Winifred Holtby Feminism Copy Share Image
The things that one most wants to do are the things that are probably most worth doing. — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
What a strange distance there is between ill people and well ones. — Winifred Holtby Distance Copy Share Image
Love needs the stiffening of respect, the give and take of equality. — Winifred Holtby Equality Copy Share Image
The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation; it is understanding. — Winifred Holtby Annihilation Copy Share Image
Really, trees are nearly as important as men, and much better behaved. — Winifred Holtby Important Copy Share Image
There's never been a lack of men willing to die bravely. The trouble is to find a few able to live sensibly. — Winifred Holtby Able Copy Share Image
The only difficulty is to know what bits to choose and what to leave out. Novel-writing is not creation, it is selection. — Winifred Holtby Bits Copy Share Image
Remorse ... is one of the many afflictions for which time finds a cure. — Winifred Holtby Affliction Copy Share Image
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