Vera Brittain

It never seems to occur to anybody that some women may not want to find husbands.

— Vera Brittain

“Politics is the executive expression of human immaturity.”

— Vera Brittain

There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask…

— Vera Brittain

The idea that it is necessary to go to a university in order to become a successful writer . . . is…

— Vera Brittain

Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

— Vera Brittain

“There is still, I think, not enough recognition by teachers of the fact that the desire to think--which is fundamentally a moral…

— Vera Brittain

Babies are a nuisance, of course. But so does everything seem to be that is worthwhile - husbands and books and committees…

— Vera Brittain

Most men, whether men or women, wish above all else to be comfortable, and thought is a pre-eminently uncomfortable process; it brings…

— Vera Brittain

I don't think victory over death... is anything so superficial as a person fulfilling their normal span of life. It can be…

— Vera Brittain

“There seemed to be nothing left in the world, for I felt that Roland had taken with him all my future and…

— Vera Brittain

I know of no place where the wind can be as icy and the damp so penetrating as in Oxford round about…

— Vera Brittain

“To my amazement, taut and tearless as I was, I saw him hastily mop his eyes with his handkerchief, and in that…

— Vera Brittain

Few of humanity's characteristics are more disconcerting than its ability to reduce world-events to its own level, wherever this may happen to…

— Vera Brittain

belated maternity has had its compensations; small children have a habit of conferring persistent youth upon their parents, and by their eager…

— Vera Brittain

“She seemed to have waited so long to hear those words that for a moment the earth stood still, and the moon,…

— Vera Brittain

“I wish those people who write so glibly about this being a holy War, and the orators who talk so much about…

— Vera Brittain

“inventions have eliminated so much of distance and time; for better, for worse, we are now each of us part of the…

— Vera Brittain

“Her mind was like a spring-tide in full flood; rich, shining, vigorous, and capable of infinite variety.”

— Vera Brittain

However deep our devotion may be to parents or to children, it is our contemporaries alone with whom understanding is instinctive and…

— Vera Brittain

The tragedy of journalism lies in its impermanence; the very topicality which gives it brilliance condemns it to an early death. Too…

— Vera Brittain

“Between 1914 and 1919 young men and women, disastrously pure in heart and unsuspicious of elderly self-interest and cynical exploitation, were continually…

— Vera Brittain

If the would-be writer studies people in their everyday lives and discovers how to make his characters in their quieter moods interesting…

— Vera Brittain

“How fortunate we were who still had hope I did not then realise; I could not know how soon the time would…

— Vera Brittain

“Perhaps ... To R.A.L. Perhaps some day the sun will shine again, And I shall see that still the skies are blue,…

— Vera Brittain

The best prose is written by authors who see their universe with a poet’s eyes.

— Vera Brittain