274 Quotes by Rebecca West

There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience.

I really write to find out what I know about something and what is to be known about something.

But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example.

... to lovers innumerable things do not matter.

The American struggle for the vote was much more difficult than the English for the simple reason that it was much more easy.

There is nothing rarer than a man who can be trusted never to throw away happiness, however eagerly he sometimes grasps it. In history we are as frequently interested in our own doom.

... it is nearly impossible to understand those who are beyond our sight, who are not explained to us by ties of birth or the contact of the flesh.

[The satirist] must fully possess, at least in the world of the imagination, the quality the lack of which he is deriding in others.

The day was so delightful that I wished one could live slowly as one can play music slowly.