60 Quotes by Radclyffe Hall

After she had gone he sat on alone, and the lie was still bitter to his spirit as he sat there, and he covered his face for the shame that was in him - but because of the love that was in him he wept.

The world hid its head in the sands of convention, so that by seeing nothing it might avoid Truth.

Life’s not all beer and skittles.

Man could not live by darkness alone, one point of light he must have for salvation – one point of light.

If our love is a sin, then heaven must be full of such tender and selfless sinning as ours.

It is bad for the soul to know itself a coward, it is apt to take refuge in mere wordy violence.

A great many women can feel and behave like men. Very few of them can behave like gentlemen.

What remained? Loneliness, or worse still, far worse because it so deeply degraded the spirit, a life of perpetual subterfuge, of guarded opinions and guarded actions, of lies of omission if not of speech, of becoming an accomplice in the world’s injustice by maintaining at all times a judicious silence, making and keeping the friends one respected, on false pretences, because if they knew they would turn aside, even the friends one respected.

Wars come and wars go but the world does not change: it will always forget an indebtedness which it thinks it expedient not to remember.