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Famous Quotes Home >> Authors Starting with R >> Quotes By Rebecca West |
| Quote #1: | "Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know they real truth about his or her love affairs." |
| Quote #2: | "The point is that nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth." |
| Quote #3: | "The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots." |
| Quote #4: | "There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time." |
| Quote #5: | "Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul." |
| Quote #6: | "It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion." |
| Quote #7: | "Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy but after a war it seems more like astrology." |
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