Top 38 Quotes by Rebecca West

It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk.

Mr. James Joyce is a great man who is entirely without taste.

The memory, experiencing and re-experiencing, has such power over one's mere personal life, that one has merely lived.

Great music is in a sense serene; it is certain of the values it asserts.

The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.

A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting away the dead things men tell us to revere.

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.

Humanity is never more sphinxlike than when it is expressing itself.

He is every other inch a gentleman.

The American struggle for the vote was much more difficult than the English for the simple reason that it was much more easy.