“Because hypocrisy stinks in the nostrils one is likely to rate it as a more powerful agent for destruction than it is.”
Rebecca West
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Hypocrisy
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“For some reason a nation feels as shy about admitting that it ever went forth to war for the sake of more wealth as a man would about admitting that he had accepted an invitation just for the sake of the food. This is one of humanity’s most profound imbecilities, as perhaps the only justification for asking one’s fellowmen to endure the horrors of war would be the knowledge that if they did not fight they would starve.”
Rebecca West
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Wealth
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“… there has never been a period in history when there have been necessary killings which has not been instantly followed by a period when there have been unnecessary killings.”
Rebecca West
Submitted by Quonation |Category: History
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“There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience.”
Rebecca West
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Experience
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“The memory … experiencing and re-experiencing, has such power over one’s mere personal life, that one has merely lived.”
Rebecca West
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Experience
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“Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.”
Rebecca West
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Life
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“One perceives that again and again she has destroyed her life when it was forming into shapes of happiness because of her loyaltyto the early misery, her conviction that that has the sanction of ultimate reality, and that beside it all other things are trivial.”
Rebecca West
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Happiness
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“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.”
Rebecca West
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Music
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“Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.”
Rebecca West
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Criticism
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“Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.”
Rebecca West
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Art
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“Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one’s own Trojan horse.”
Rebecca West
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Mothers
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“The main difference between men and woman is that men are lunatics and woman are idiots.”
Rebecca West
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Women
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“But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example.”
Rebecca West
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Grief
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“He is every other inch a gentleman.”
Rebecca West
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Gentlemen
