Rebecca West Quotes

Dame Cicily Isabel Fairfield DBE known as Rebecca West, or Dame Rebecca West, was a British author, journalist, literary critic and travel writer. An author who wrote in many genres, West reviewed books for The Times, the New York Herald Tribune, the Sunday Telegraph, and The New Republic, and she was a correspondent for The Bookman. ...more

Birth: December 21, 1892 - Death: March 15, 1983

Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.

Topic(s): Inspirational , Life , Soul

No great thing happens suddenly.

Topic(s): Inspirational , Happens , Change

Submission to poverty is the unpardonable sin against the body. Submission to unhappiness is the unpardonable sin against the spirit.

Topic(s): Body , Spirit , Sin

The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.

Topic(s): Men , Differences , Women

A good cause has to be careful of the company it keeps.

Topic(s): Causes , Company , Careful

If the poor ever feel poor as the rich do, we will have a most bloody revolution.

Topic(s): Feels , Poor , Rich

Sex, which ought to be an incident of life, is the obsession of the well-fed world.

Topic(s): World , Wells , Life Is

There are two kinds of imperialists – imperialists and bloody imperialists.

Topic(s): Kind , Two , Bloody

The adventure is over. Everything gets over, and nothing is ever enough. Except the part you carry with you.

Topic(s): Enough , Adventure , Get Over

It is always one’s virtues and not one’s vices that precipitate one into disaster.

Topic(s): Success , Virtue , Vices

Music is a missionary effort to colonize earth for imperialistic heaven.

Topic(s): Earth , Heaven , Effort

Music is part of human life and partakes of the human tragedy. There is much more music in the world than is allowed to change into heard sounds and prove its point.

Topic(s): World , Heard , Music

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