234 Quotes by Katherine Mansfield

Some couples go over their budgets very carefully every month. Others just go over them.

Looking back, I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all.

How hard it is to escape from places. However carefully one goes they hold you — you leave little bits of yourself fluttering on the fences — like rags and shreds of your very life.

I am poor - obscure - just eighteen years of age - with a rapacious appetite for everything and principles as light as my purse.

Would you not like to try all sorts of lives - one is so very small - but that is the satisfaction of writing - one can impersonate so many people.

September is different from all other months. It is more magical. I feel the strange chemical change in the earth which produces mushrooms is the cause, too, of the extra 'life' in the air - a resilience, a sparkle.

I am treating you as my friend asking you share my present minuses in the hope I can ask you to share my future pluses.

Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing in.

To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.