I advise nobody to drown sorrow in cocoa. It is bad for the figure and it does not alleviate the sorrow. — Winifred Holtby Advise Copy Share Image
But questioning does not mean the end of loving, and loving does not mean the abnegation of intelligence — Winifred Holtby Abnegation Copy Share Image
the ruder lecturers are, and the louder their voices, the more converts they make to their opinions. — Winifred Holtby Lecturer Copy Share Image
We each live in a private, distorted, individual world - stars turning in space, warmed for a moment by each other's light,… — Winifred Holtby Astronomy Copy Share Image
I am much perturbed by this business of sickness. Our bodies seem so easily to leap into the saddle where our minds… — Winifred Holtby Body Copy Share Image
When a person that one loves is in the world and alive and well, and pleased to be in the world, then… — Winifred Holtby Alive Copy Share Image
“Fill your tall goblets with white wine and red, And sing brave songs of gallant love and true, Wearing soft robes of… — Winifred Holtby Love Copy Share Image
Most gay, conversational, careless, lovely city ... where one drinks golden Tokay until one feels most beautiful, and warm and loved -… — Winifred Holtby Beautiful Copy Share Image
Sorrow and frustration have their power. The world is moved by people with great discontents. Happiness is a drug. It can make… — Winifred Holtby Blind Copy Share Image
But to write - that is grief and labor; and to read what one has written - how unlike the story as… — Winifred Holtby Bed Copy Share Image
“You said that death was not the end; most true. Death was not stronger than my love for you. But since sweet… — Winifred Holtby Death Copy Share Image
I find you in all small and lovely things; in the little fishes like flames in the green water, in the furred… — Winifred Holtby Bees Copy Share Image
What with the reviews of critics, the sarcasms of one's friends, the reproaches of one's own taste, there's precious little peace after… — Winifred Holtby Book Copy Share Image
Life flows on over death as water closes over a stone dropped into a pool. ... Fate is certain; death is certain;… — Winifred Holtby Certain Copy Share Image
public work brings a vicarious but assured sense of immortality. We may be poor, weak, timid, in debt to our landlady, bullied… — Winifred Holtby Activism Copy Share Image
Teachers have power. We may cripple them by petty economics; by Government regulations, by the foolish criticism of an uninformed press; but… — Winifred Holtby Cripples Copy Share Image
Surely, if life is good, it is good throughout its substance; we cannot separate men's activities from women's and say, these are… — Winifred Holtby Activity Copy Share Image
The world, with all its beauty and adventure, its richness and variety, is darkened by cruelty. Death, if it ends the loveliness,… — Winifred Holtby Adventure Copy Share Image
we are so little, so ignorant, so feeble an infant race crawling on a planet between immensities we haven't even begun to… — Winifred Holtby Congratulations Copy Share Image
I would, if I could, always feed to music. The singularly graceless action of thus filling one's body with roots and dead… — Winifred Holtby Action Copy Share Image
I like a bit of color myself, I must say. At my time of life, if you wear nothing but black, people… — Winifred Holtby Bits Copy Share Image
These are they whose youth was violently severed by war and death; a word on the telephone, a scribbled line on paper,… — Winifred Holtby Absolute Copy Share Image
If you are rich, you have lovely cars, and jars full of flowers, and books in rows, and a wireless, and the… — Winifred Holtby Book Copy Share Image
All adventuring is rash, and all innovations dangerous. But not nearly so dangerous as stagnation and dry rot. From grooves, cliques, clichés… — Winifred Holtby Adventuring Copy Share Image
