Katherine Mansfield

“Shadow children, thin and small, Now the day is left behind, You are dancing on the wall, On the curtains, on the…

— Katherine Mansfield

“Oh, with you, I could conquer the world - oh, with you I could catch hold of the moon like a little…

— Katherine Mansfield

“I have made it a rule of my life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste…

— Katherine Mansfield

Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

— Katherine Mansfield

Children are unaccountable little creatures.

— Katherine Mansfield

“Leila was sure ifhe partner didn't come and she had to listen to that marvellous music and to watch the others sliding,…

— Katherine Mansfield

Regret is an appalling waste of time.

— Katherine Mansfield

I love the rain. I want the feeling of it on my face.

— Katherine Mansfield

England is merely an island of beef swimming in a warm gulf stream of gravy.

— Katherine Mansfield

Perhaps it does not matter so very much what it is one loves in this world. But love something one must.

— Katherine Mansfield

Ah, what happiness it is to be with people who are all happy, to press hands, press cheeks, smile into eyes.

— Katherine Mansfield

To acknowledge the presence of fear is to give birth to failure.

— Katherine Mansfield

I am poor - obscure - just eighteen years of age - with a rapacious appetite for everything and principles as light…

— Katherine Mansfield

“I used to believe I was merely words and I do not know whether I shall start hoping for something more. You…

— Katherine Mansfield

To be alive and to be a ‘writer’ is enough.

— Katherine Mansfield

“I thought how true it was that the world was a delightful place if it were not for the people, and how…

— Katherine Mansfield

“I’d love to tearfully absorb you in every way and I’d love to play with your hair, read your eyes, feel disarmed…

— Katherine Mansfield

“And then there is the waiter. Not pathetic-decidedly not comic. Never making one of those perfectly insignificant remarks which amaze you so…

— Katherine Mansfield

It's rather nice to think of oneself as a sailor bending over the map of one's mind and deciding where to go…

— Katherine Mansfield

“Dark girls, fair girls were patting their hair, tying ribbons again, tucking handkerchiefs down the fronts of their bodices, smoothing marble-white gloves.…

— Katherine Mansfield

I am a recluse at present & do nothing but write & read & read & write

— Katherine Mansfield

You are a Queen. Let mine be the joy of giving you your kingdom.

— Katherine Mansfield

There are in life as many aspects as attitudes towards it, and aspects change with attitudes.

— Katherine Mansfield

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinion of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you.…

— Katherine Mansfield

“I should like to have friends, I confess. I do not suppose I ever shall. But there have been moments when I…

— Katherine Mansfield