Rebecca West Quotes

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
Rebecca West

Find, Able, Call

Did St. Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats.
Rebecca West

Done, Whatever, Cats

It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.
Rebecca West

Disaster, Virtues, Vices

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

Call, Express, Feminist

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

Powerful, Hypocrisy, Likely

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.
Rebecca West

Life, Men, Best

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

Life, Struggle, Soul

Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.
Rebecca West

Work, Art, Between

The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.
Rebecca West

Women, Men, Between

People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.
Rebecca West

Call, Express, Feminist

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

Men, Nations, Sleepy

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.
Rebecca West

Trust, Everyone, Themselves

International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge.
Rebecca West

Knowledge, Based, Imperfect

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

God, Book, Practice

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

Music, Great, Sense

He is every other inch a gentleman.
Rebecca West

Gentleman, Inch

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

History, Hard, Sometimes

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

Passion, Soul, Duty

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

Mom, Horse, Motherhood

Nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.
Rebecca West

Earth, Nobody, Likes

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

Illusion, Monologues

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

Communication, Mind, Nothing

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

Art, Universe, Copy

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

War, Science, Real

But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example.
Rebecca West

Tears, Example, Features

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Author

Born: December 21, 1892

Died: March 15, 1983

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