"It is always one's virtues and not one's……" — Rebecca West
"It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster."
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85 Quotes by Rebecca West
Rebecca West has 85 quotes on this site.
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Motherhood is neither a duty nor a privilege, but simply the way that humanity can satisfy the desire for physical…
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The adventure is over. Everything gets over, and nothing is ever enough. Except the part you carry with you.
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It is a great pity that every human being does not, at an early stage of his life, have to…
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Women know the damnation of charity because the habit of civilization has always been to throw them cheap alms rather…
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Charity is an ugly trick. It is a virtue grown by the rich on the graves of the poor. Unless…
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There is in every one of us an unending see-saw between the will to live and the will to die.
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Getting a divorce is nearly always as cheerful and useful an occupation as breaking valuable china.
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Those who foresee the future and recognize it as tragic are often seized upon by a madness which forced them…
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There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all.
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All good biography, as all good fiction, comes down to the study of original sin, of our inherent disposition to…
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Of Virginia Woolf: The talent of this generation which is most certain of survival.
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For the sake of my country, and perhaps a little for the sake of my soul, I have given up…
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More Disaster Quotes
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Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all time low over the world.
— Isaac Asimov
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Lebanon was under Israeli occupation, up to its capital, but we did not consider that a disaster. Why? Because it…
— Bashar al-Assad
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If a sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured that disaster…
— Norman Ralph Augustine
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As a species, we've somehow survived large and small ice ages, genetic bottlenecks, plagues, world wars and all manner of…
— Diane Ackerman
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I would hate now to be married. It does occur to me on occasion that, if I fall and hit…
— Lauren Bacall
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I always leave that for other people to decide, because some of the things I consider to be disasters are…
— Christian Bale
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The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and…
— Neal Barnard
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We virtually never feel our age, but thinking that we should can lead to disaster.
— Martha Beck
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I went through a big Alice Cooper phase, which was probably a major influence on my writing style later, especially…
— Jello Biafra
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In the middle of a recession, where we're just climbing out of it, where the economy -unemployment is still at…
— Joe Biden
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Never in our country's history have we witnessed a natural disaster that has impacted so many people in such a…
— Jo Bonner
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There also is the plight that comes from natural disasters; these natural disasters could be alleviated or dealt with; we…
— Bhumibol Adulyadej
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