Vita Sackville-West Quotes

She found herself suddenly surrounded by a host of assumptions. It was assumed that she trembled for...

It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net ...

And still the strange meaningless conversations continue, and I wonder more and more at the fabric w...

I have come to the conclusion, after many years of sometimes sad experience, that you cannot come to...

Not seeing is half-believing.

I worshipped dead men for their strength, forgetting I was strong.

Days I enjoy are days when nothing happens,When I have no engagements written on my block,When no on...

So prodigal was I of youth Forgetting I was young I worshipped dead men for their strength Forget...

Damn you, spoilt creature; I shan’t make you love me any the more by giving myself away like this.

There had been no moments when she could differentiate and say: Then, at such a moment, I love him; ...

Ambition old as mankind the immemorial weakness of the strong.

I believe that the main thing in beginning a novel is to feel, not that you can write it, but that i...

Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in...

What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.

There is nothing more lovely in life than the union of two people whose love for one another has gro...

My dear Mr FitzGeorge!' cried Lady Slane. 'You really mustn't talk as though my life had been a trag...