234 Quotes by Katherine Mansfield

Sleeping was her latest discovery. ‘It’s so wonderful. One simply shuts one’s eyes, that’s all. It’s so delicious.

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

I feel as though I were living in a world of strange beings – do you? It’s people that make things so – silly. As long as you can keep away from them you’re safe and you’re happy.

I love to close my eyes a moment and think of the land outside, white under the mingled snow and moonlight – the heaps of stones by the roadside white – snow in the furrows. Mon Dieu! How quiet and how patient!

Laura’s upbringing made her wonder for a moment whether it was quite respectful of a workman to talk to her of bangs slap in the eye. But she did quite follow him.

Well, Mr. Arnold, here’s Mrs. Hammond at last!” The manager led them through the hall himself and pressed the elevator-bell. Hammond knew there were business pals of his sitting at the little hall tables having a drink before dinner. But he wasn’t going to risk interruption; he looked neither to the right nor the left.

It’s rather nice to think of oneself as a sailor bending over the map of one’s mind and deciding where to go and how to go. The great thing to remember is we can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough.

EM Forster never gets any further than warming the tea pot... Is it not beautifully warm? Yes, but there ain’t going to be no tea.

Letters are the real curse of my existence. I hate to write them: I have to. If I don’t, there they are – the great guilty gates barring my way.