84 Quotes by Winifred Holtby

Teachers have power. We may cripple them by petty economics; by Government regulations, by the foolish criticism of an uninformed press; but their power exists for good or evil ...

I can't think why I was cursed with this inordinate desire to write, if the high gods weren't going to give me some more adquate means of expressing myself than that which my present pedestrian prose affords.

Youth knows no remedy for grief but death.

the ruder lecturers are, and the louder their voices, the more converts they make to their opinions.

Remorse ... is one of the many afflictions for which time finds a cure.

Progress. There's a good deal too much o' this progress about nowadays, an', what's more, it'll have to stop.

There's never been a lack of men willing to die bravely. The trouble is to find a few able to live sensibly.

[On golf:] One of the most distressing defects of civilization.

The greatest mercy, I have often thought, of the Mediterranean coast lies in its mosquitoes. Did we not suffer from their unwelcome attention, we could not bear our holidays to end.