Sylvia Townsend Warner - Young Quotes

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Of all damnable offenses preaching prudence to the young is the most damnable.

Sylvia Townsend Warner

Death transfigured her. In a matter of minutes I saw the beauty of her young days reassert itself on her blurred careworn face. It was like something in music, the re-establishment of the original key, the return of the theme. Don't think I am unhappy and alone, dear William. I am not. I am in a new country and she is the compass I travel by.

Sylvia Townsend Warner

Once, when I was a young lady and on a night express... I was awakened by a man coming in from the corridor and taking hold of my leg... Quite as much to my own astonishment as his, I uttered the most appalling growl that ever came out of a tigress. He fled, poor man, without a word: and I lay there, trembling slightly, not at my escape but at my potentialities.

Sylvia Townsend Warner

Young people are careless of their virginity; one day they may have it and the next not.

Sylvia Townsend Warner

You are only young once. At the time it seems endless, and is gone in a flash; and then for a very long time you are old.

Sylvia Townsend Warner

I realize that it is as one ages and loses one's natural force that one is at the mercy of heredity. The young are themselves: the aging, their parents' children.

Sylvia Townsend Warner