88 Quotes by Natalie Clifford Barney

To think about and prepare for war is boring, boring for everyone. It's being locked in barracks.

Our prejudices, our antipathies, are our natural defenses against what we could not assimilate.

Avoid that romantic trap: saying more than you feel, forcing yourself to feel more than you've said!

Being bilingual is like having a wife and a mistress. One can never be sure of either.

A scholar's heart is a dark well in which are buried many aborted feelings that rise to the surface as arguments.

To be married is to be neither alone nor together.

Like all religions, love has more believers than practitioners.

Paris has always seemed to me to be the only city in which one can live as one sees fit.

That parasite: the past.