25 Quotes by Ethel Lilian Voynich

He says things which need saying and which none of us have had the courage to say. This passage, where he compares Italy to a tipsy man weeping with tenderness on the neck of the thief who is picking his pocket, is splendidly written.

As a literary composition, it is utterly worthless, and could be admired only by persons who know nothing about literature. As for its giving offence, that is the very thing I intended it to do.

If you are going to say a thing the substance of which is a big pill for your readers to swallow, there is no use in frightening them at the beginning by the form.

Most of us are degraded in one way or another.

Life would be unendurable without quarrels. A good quarrel is the salt of the earth; it’s better than a variety show!

And the natural result was that I got a dip into the real hell to cure me of imagining sham ones.

We are all fit for better things than we ever do.