Bases Quote by Rosamond Lehmann

[On Ian Fleming:] The trouble with Ian is that he gets off with women because he can't get on with them.

— Rosamond Lehmann

“Yes, we are sure of it. These walls enclose a world. Here is continuity spinning a web from room to room, from year to…

— Rosamond Lehmann

Advice to Young Journal Keepers. Be lenient with yourself. Conceal your worst faults, leave out your most shameful thoughts, actions, and temptations. Give yourself…

— Rosamond Lehmann

anything that becomes a cult, or a mass movement, loses its moral and spiritual value. The crusade has to be personal, individual. As soon…

— Rosamond Lehmann

Convention is another name for the habits of society.

— Rosamond Lehmann

It's the thought that counts.

— Rosamond Lehmann

Looking back into childhood is like looking into a semi-transparent globe within which people and places lie embedded. A shake - and they stir,…

— Rosamond Lehmann

“Still, now and then they seemed to be holding behind them the surprising, the magic vistas of childhood - the sudden snow at night,…

— Rosamond Lehmann

One should always act from one's inner sense of rhythm.

— Rosamond Lehmann

How long, I wonder, will ignorance spell purity and knowledge shame?

— Rosamond Lehmann

“I want to do something absolutely different, or perhaps nothing at all: just stay where I am, in my home, and absorb each hour,…

— Rosamond Lehmann

Holidays, if you enjoy them, have no history.

— Rosamond Lehmann