Happiness Quote by Vera Brittain

“At this time of the year it seems that everything ought to be creative, not destructive, and that we should encourage things to live…

— Vera Brittain

“Mother says that people like me just become intellectual old maids,' I told him. 'I don't see why,' he protested. 'Oh, well, it's probably…

— Vera Brittain

“It is quite impossible to understand,’ I commented afterwards, ‘how we can be such strong individualists, so insistent on the rights and claims of…

— Vera Brittain

Babies are a nuisance, of course. But so does everything seem to be that is worth while – husbands and books and committees and…

— Vera Brittain

All that a pacifist can undertake -- but it is a very great deal -- is to refuse to kill, injure or otherwise cause…

— Vera Brittain

An author who waits for the right 'mood' will soon find that 'moods' get fewer and fewer until they cease altogether.

— Vera Brittain

“[I] wondered if he was looking up at that same moon, far away, and thinking of me as I was thinking of him.”

— Vera Brittain

Why, I wonder, do people who at one time or another have all been young themselves, and who ought therefore to know better, generalize…

— Vera Brittain

Venice is all sea and sculpture.

— Vera Brittain

We should never be at the mercy of Providence if only we understood that we ourselves are Providence.

— Vera Brittain

I wish those people who write so glibly about this being a holy war and the orators who talk so much about going on,…

— Vera Brittain

College is a secluded life of scholastic vegetation

— Vera Brittain