234 Quotes by Katherine Mansfield

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!

Miss Brill had often noticed there was something funny about nearly all of them. They were odd, silent, nearly all old,and from the way stared they looked as though they'd just come from dark little rooms of even, even cupboards!

It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

This [Ulysses] is obviously the wave of the future, I'm glad I'm dying of tuberculosis.

Nos sentamos en la balaustrada, bajo la marquesina. Beatrice estaba inclinada, mirando a lo lejos..., hacia la carretera blanca con su defensa de cactus espinosos. La belleza de su oreja, tan sólo su oreja, tan maravillosa que habría podido dejar de mirarla y gritar hacia toda aquella extensión de mar centelleante que teníamos debajo:«Saben... su oreja... Tiene unas orejas que son simplemente lo más...»

Everything about her was sweet, pale like honey. You would not have been surprised to see a bee caught in the tangles of that yellow hair.

But the pear tree was as lovely as ever and as full of flower and as still.

They had met at the club and Bertha had fallen in love with her, as she always did fall in love with beautiful women who had something strange about them.