274 Quotes by Rebecca West

I have no faith in the sense of comforting beliefs which persuade me that all my troubles are blessings in disguise.

Good God enlighten us! Which of these two belongs to the sterner sex - the man who sits in Whitehall all his life on a comfortable salary, or the woman who has to keep her teeth bared lest she has her meatless bone of 17s. 4d. a week snatched away from her and who has to produce the next generation on her off-days?

Nobody ever wrote a good book simply by collecting a number of accurate facts and valid ideas.

I always have beauty around me, for I have but to go to my piano, and trace one of the million designs that have been made by my masters.

It would be no loss to the world if most of the writers now writing had been strangled at birth.

The unsuccessful bully can always become the father of a family.

History sometimes acts as madly as heredity, and her most unpredictable performances are often her most glorious.

Without doubt cats are intellectuals who have been, by some mysterious decree of Providence, deprived of the comfort of the word.

No great thing happens suddenly.