[The satirist] must fully possess, at least in the world of the imagination, the quality the lack of which he is deriding… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Music is part of human life and partakes of the human tragedy. There is much more music in the world than is… — 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
Like all bad drivers, he [Henry Andrews] thought he was the best driver in the world... — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
The principle of avoiding the unnecessary expenditure of energy has enabled the species to survive in a world full of stimuli; but… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
If ever peace is to be imposed on the world it will only be because a large number of men who could… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
The word 'idiot' comes from a Greek root meaning private person. Idiocy is the female defect: intent on their private lives, women… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Sex, which ought to be an incident of life, is the obsession of the well-fed world. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
It would be no loss to the world if most of the writers now writing had been strangled at birth. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
The Portrait of a Lady is entirely successful in giving one the sense of having met somebody far too radiantly good for… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
After any disturbance (such as two world wars coinciding with a period of growing economic and monetary incomprehensibility) we find our old… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
To every man in the world there is one person of whom he knows little: whom he would never recognize if he… — 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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