Rebecca West quotes

" The main difference between men and woman is that men are lunatics and woman are idiots. " # Men and Women # Women # Politicians and Politics

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

" Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience. " # Critics and Criticism # Arts and Artists # Argument

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

" People call me feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute. " # Feminism # Prostitution # Sentiment

" He is every other inch a gentleman. " # Gentlemen # Freedom # Power

" Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what people say about themselves. " # Gossip # Freedom # Power

" But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example. " # Grief # Freedom # Power

" Now different races and nationalities cherish different ideals of society that stink in each other's nostrils with an offensiveness beyond the power of any but the most monstrous private deed. " # Ideology # Power # Deeds and Good Deeds

" She saw she had fallen into the hands of one of those doctors who have strayed too far from apparent in the direction of the soul. " # Medicine # Doctors # Virtue