Gertrude Bell - Letters of Gertrude Bell

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When people talk of our muddling through it throws me into a passion. Muddle through! why yes so we do –wading through blood and tears that need never have been shed.

Gertrude Bell

I have fallen a hopeless victim to the Turk; he is the most charming of mortals.

Gertrude Bell

It's so nice to be a spoke in the wheel, one that helps to turn, not one that hinders.

Gertrude Bell

It is almost impossible to believe that a few years ago the human race was more or less governed by reason and considered consequences, before it did things.... At the back of my mind I have a feeling that we people of the war can never return to complete sanity. The shock has been too great; we're unbalanced.

Gertrude Bell

I wonder why you care so much about me — no, I don't wonder. I only accept it as the thing at the back of all one's life that makes everything bearable and possible. But it is a singular thing to be sure.

Gertrude Bell