Rebecca West

Great music is in a sense serene it is certain of the values it asserts…

Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But…

The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are…

International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge…

Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one’s own Trojan horse…

Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy but after a war…

There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither…

There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the…

It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of…

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

A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go…

Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between…

Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience…