Question everyone in authority, and see that you get sensible answers to your questions ... questioning does not mean the end of… — Winifred Holtby Abnegation Copy Share Image
Really, trees are nearly as important as men, and much better behaved. — Winifred Holtby Important Copy Share Image
The things that one most wants to do are the things that are probably most worth doing. — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
It's the things you don't do, not the things you do, you feel most sorry for. — Winifred Holtby Feels 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
[On golf:] One of the most distressing defects of civilization. — Winifred Holtby Civilization Copy Share Image
“Lydia delighted her. The girl's roughness, her ability, her exuberance, were qualities desired by Sarah for her children. You could make something… — Winifred Holtby Children 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
“Oh, lovely world,' thought Sarah, in love with life and all its varied richness.” — Winifred Holtby Life Copy Share Image
The greatest mercy, I have often thought, of the Mediterranean coast lies in its mosquitoes. Did we not suffer from their unwelcome… — Winifred Holtby Attention 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
“And not there, not there, not there, Your laughing face and your wind-blown hair Leave not even a ghost in the garden.” — Winifred Holtby Garden Copy Share Image
Progress. There's a good deal too much o' this progress about nowadays, an', what's more, it'll have to stop. — Winifred Holtby Deals Copy Share Image
Progress? It ought to be stopped, that's what I say. If the Lord meant chickens to come out of incubators he'd never… — Winifred Holtby Change Copy Share Image
A sense of humor is so handy, isn't it? It lets you see both sides of a question so that you never… — Winifred Holtby Both sides 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
“I am a feminist because I dislike everything that feminism implies. I desire an end to the whole business, the demands for… — Winifred Holtby Feminism 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
“Their language was an old wild language. They had known incredible loves and dark adventures and the twisted streets of alien cities.… — Winifred Holtby Adventure Copy Share Image
This alone is to be feared - the closed mind, the sleeping imagination, the death of the spirit. The death of the… — Winifred Holtby Body Copy Share Image
the damned book I am writing is like the driveling of a weak-kneed sea calf. If I were sufficiently strong minded, I… — Winifred Holtby Book 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
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
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