17 Quotes by Rosamond Lehmann

Yes, we are sure of it. These walls enclose a world. Here is continuity spinning a web from room to room, from year to year. It is safe in this house.

Holidays, if you enjoy them, have no history.

One should always act from one’s inner sense of rhythm.

The fact is, one shouldn’t go to parties when one is in love. It makes one act aloof and superior and everyone distrusts you.

The novel will never die, but it will keep changing and evolving and taking different shapes.

People have been saying the novel is dead for as far back as I can remember. The novel will never die, but it will keep changing and evolving and taking different shapes. Storytelling, which is the basis of the novel, has always existed and always will.

Still, now and then they seemed to be holding behind them the surprising, the magic vistas of childhood – the sudden snow at night, whirling and furring without sound against the window; the full moon and all its shadows on the lawn; the Christmas sleigh and reindeer in the sky.

But poetry is not to be lived, except for the few to whom it is more important than self-preservation.