Vera Brittain Quotes

Tired as I was of conflict, I felt that I must not shrink from the fight, nor abandon in cowardice t...

Perhaps ... To R.A.L.Perhaps some day the sun will shine again,And I shall see that still the skies ...

Why, I wondered, do people who at one time or another have all been young themselves, who ought ther...

How fortunate we were who still had hope I did not then realise; I could not know how soon the time ...

I am less blindly confident than I once was, for I have been learning a truer estimate of myself, my...

Only, I felt, by some such attempt to write history in terms of personal life could I rescue somethi...

I found it not inappropriate that the years of frustration and grief and loss, of work and conflict ...

When I was a girl . . . I imagined that life was individual, one's own affair; that the events happe...

When the Great War broke out, it came to me not as a superlative tragedy, but as an interruption of ...

I joined the Pass Mods. class and studied the cyropaedia and Livy's Wars with a resentful feeling th...

It is, I think, this glamour, this magic, this incomparable keying up of the spirit in a time of mor...

The fact that, within ten years, I lost one world, and after a time rose again, as it were, from spi...

That's the worst of sorrow . . . it's always a vicious circle. It makes one tense and hard and disag...

...if only the comfortable prosperity of the Victorian age hadn't lulled us into a false conviction ...

However deep our devotion may be to parents or to children it is our contemporaries alone with whom...

I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up o...

When the sound of victorious guns burst over London at 11 a.m. on November 11th, 1918, the men and w...

People talked so foolishly, I thought, about the ennobling effects of suffering. No doubt the philos...