Best Rebecca West Sayings
- God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide. Any
- He is every other inch a gentleman. Gentleman
- It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion. Abandon
- Journalism: an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space. Ability
- A copy of the universe is not what is required of art; one of the damned things is ample. Ample
- Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology. Astrology
- But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example. Dissipation
- Humanity is never more sphinxlike than when it is expressing itself. Expressing
- I wonder if we are all wrong about each other, if we are just composing unwritten novels about the people we meet? All
- Mr. James Joyce is a great man who is entirely without taste. Entirely
- The memory, experiencing and re-experiencing, has such power over one's mere personal life, that one has merely lived. Experiencing
- The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple. Cannot Learn
- There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence. Art
- There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience. Experience
- Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized that even less can… Believe
- Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real… Affair
- We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth… All
- It isn't only living people who die, it is great stretches of living, which can die even when the people who lived there still exist. Die
- works of art feel towards human beings exactly as we do towards ghosts. The transparency of spectres, the diffuseness in space which lets them drift… Art
- I had come to Yugoslavia to see what history meant in flesh and blood. Blood
- It's my profession to bring people from various outlying districts of the mind to the normal. There seems to be a general feeling it's the… Bring
- Embraces do not matter; they merely indicate the will to love and may as well be followed by defeat as victory. But disregard means that… Aware
- You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is. Always Believe
- She did not suddenly start being disagreeable this afternoon, she was so good at it, she had evidently practised whatever are the scales and arpeggios… Afternoon
- The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning. Beginning