Rebecca West Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what people say about themselves.”

“Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs.”

“We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth given up by a glass of brandy.”

“Great music is in a sense serene; it is certain of the values it asserts.”

“But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example.”

“Humanity is never more sphinxlike than when it is expressing itself.”

“The American struggle for the vote was much more difficult than the English for the simple reason that it was much more easy.”

“There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience.”