Winifred Holtby Short Quotes

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I am fierce for work. Without work I am nothing.

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No truth is strong enough to defeat a well-established legend.

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Love needs the stiffening of respect, the give and take of equality.

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Really, trees are nearly as important as men, and much better behaved.

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The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation; it is understanding.

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Is this the final treachery of time, that the old become a burden upon the young?

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If we haven't a grouch against Fortune, we seem unable to avoid one against ourselves.

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The things that one most wants to do are the things that are probably most worth doing.

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The ruder lecturers are, and the louder their voices, the more converts they make to their opinions.

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But questioning does not mean the end of loving, and loving does not mean the abnegation of intelligence

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I advise nobody to drown sorrow in cocoa. It is bad for the figure and it does not alleviate the sorrow.

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Sixty if she's a day. Calls herself forty-seven, of course. They're all forty-seven when they get past fifty.

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The conductor obeyed all too literally the proverbial mandate. His right hand rarely knew what his left hand did...

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The only difficulty is to know what bits to choose and what to leave out. Novel-writing is not creation, it is selection.

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She was suffering acutely, for it was her instinct to give people what they wanted, and there was nothing that she could do for Evelyn.

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Progress? It ought to be stopped, that's what I say. If the Lord meant chickens to come out of incubators he'd never have made hens, it stands to reason.

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We each live in a private, distorted, individual world - stars turning in space, warmed for a moment by each other's light, then lost in infinite distance.

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Contrary to popular superstition, ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is impotence; it is fear; it is cruelty; it is all the things that make for unhappiness.

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What with the reviews of critics, the sarcasms of one's friends, the reproaches of one's own taste, there's precious little peace after publishing a book...

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This alone is to be feared — the closed mind, the sleeping imagination, the death of the spirit. The death of the body is to that, I think, a little thing.

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If you are rich, you have lovely cars, and jars full of flowers, and books in rows, and a wireless, and the best sort of gramophone and meringues for supper.

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The damned book I am writing is like the driveling of a weak-kneed sea calf. If I were sufficiently strong minded, I should tear it up an start again. But I don't.

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I am much perturbed by this business of sickness. Our bodies seem so easily to leap into the saddle where our minds should be. People who are ill become changelings.

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Teachers have power. We may cripple them by petty economics; by Government regulations, by the foolish criticism of an uninformed press; but their power exists for good or evil...

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The greatest mercy, I have often thought, of the Mediterranean coast lies in its mosquitoes. Did we not suffer from their unwelcome attention, we could not bear our holidays to end.

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