Winifred Holtby Quotes
- The things that one most wants to do are the things that are probably most worth doing.
- The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation; it is understanding.
- I am fierce for work. Without work I am nothing.
- What a strange distance there is between ill people and well ones.
- This alone is to be feared - the closed mind, the sleeping imagination, the death of the spirit. The death of the body is to…
- We're so busy resigning ourselves to the inevitable that we don't even ask if it is inevitable. We've got to have courage, to take our…
- But questioning does not mean the end of loving, and loving does not mean the abnegation of intelligence
- These are they whose youth was violently severed by war and death; a word on the telephone, a scribbled line on paper, and their future…