Quotes By Rebecca West

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

It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.

Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.

Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind.

All men should have a drop of treason in their veins, if nations are not to go soft like so many sleepy pears.

I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.

There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all.

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