Quotes By Rebecca West

God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.

Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.

I write books to find out about things.

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

A copy of the universe is not what is required of art; one of the damned things is ample.

Because hypocrisy stinks in the nostrils one is likely to rate it as a more powerful agent for destruction than it is.

Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.

There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience.