5 Quotes by Valerie Fitzgerald

I am also awe-struck – not by the evident heroism, but by the magnitude of the stupidity of human beings. Is all history merely the outcome, the artificially hallowed outcome, of a chance concatenation of ignorance and arrogance in some one character?

I cried silently in the unsilent dark.

Hatred has a way of destroying the hater more surely than the hated’. Trite, but true in a most terrible way.

Being asked for one’s advice is always flattering.

I cried because nineteen years of living could leave behind no more lasting memorial than a few carefully adjusted impressions of a character in a handful of mortal minds.