Book Quote by Winifred Holtby

it is the brevity of life which makes it tolerable; its experiences have value because they have an end.

— Winifred Holtby

You are quite, quite wrong if you think that ... I find your happiness painful. What matters is that happiness - the golden day…

— Winifred Holtby

Love needs the stiffening of respect, the give and take of equality.

— Winifred Holtby

Sorrow and frustration have their power. The world is moved by people with great discontents. Happiness is a drug. It can make men blind…

— Winifred Holtby

There's never been a lack of men willing to die bravely. The trouble is to find a few able to live sensibly.

— Winifred Holtby

I advise nobody to drown sorrow in cocoa. It is bad for the figure and it does not alleviate the sorrow.

— Winifred Holtby

What a strange distance there is between ill people and well ones.

— Winifred Holtby

The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation; it is understanding.

— Winifred Holtby

public work brings a vicarious but assured sense of immortality. We may be poor, weak, timid, in debt to our landlady, bullied by our…

— Winifred Holtby

Everybody's tragedy is somebody's nuisance.

— Winifred Holtby

I can't think why I was cursed with this inordinate desire to write, if the high gods weren't going to give me some more…

— Winifred Holtby

If you are rich, you have lovely cars, and jars full of flowers, and books in rows, and a wireless, and the best sort…

— Winifred Holtby