All Vita Sackville-West Quotes
- The more one gardens, the more one learns; And the more one learns, the more one realizes how little one knows. Educational
- Summer makes a silence after spring. Inspirational
- The most noteworthy thing about gardeners is that they are always optimistic, always enterprising, and never satisfied. They always look forward to doing something better… Always Look
- Gardening is a luxury occupation: an ornament, not a necessity, of life.... Fortunate gardener, who may preoccupy himself solely with beauty in these difficult and… Beauty
- A flowerless room is a soulless room, to my way of thinking; but even a solitary little vase of a living flower may redeem it. Flower
- Flowers really do intoxicate me. Flower
- I loved you when love was Spring, and May, Loved you when summer deepened into June, and now when autumn yellows all the leaves... All
- Things were not tragic for us then, because although we cared passionately we didn't care deeply. Care
- To hope for Paradise is to live in Paradise, a very different thing from actually getting there. Actually Getting
- It isn't that I don't like sweet disorder, but it has to be judiciously arranged. Arranged
- I suppose the pleasure of the country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidences of the determination to live. That is a truism when… Country
- Is it better to be extremely ambitious, or rather modest? Probably the latter is safer; but I hate safety, and would rather fail gloriously than… Ambitious
- For the last 40 years of my life I have broken my back, my fingernails, and sometimes my heart, in the practical pursuit of my… Broken
- My garden all is overblown with roses,/ My spirit all is overblown with rhyme, All
- Women, like men, ought to have their years so glutted with freedom that they hate the very idea of freedom. Freedom
- Every garden-maker should be an artist along his own lines. That is the only possible way to create a garden, irrespective of size or wealth. Along
- It is a sad moment when the first phlox appears. It is the amber light indicating the end of the great burst of early summer… Amber
- There are no signposts in the sea. Choices
- Serenity of spirit and turbulence of action should make up the sum of a man's life. Action
- The Saluki is a marvel of elegance. Dog
- Not seeing is half-believing. Believe
- I suppose the pleasure of country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidences of the determination to live. Country
- I like muddling things up; and if a herb looks nice in a border, then why not grow it there? Why not grow anything anywhere… Anything Anywhere
- Successful gardening is not necessarily a question of wealth, it is a question of love, taste, and knowledge. Gardening
- There is always something else to do. A gardener should have nine times as many lives as a cat. Always Something