Rebecca West (pseudonym of Mrs. Cicely Fairfield Andrews), (1892-1983), British Author Quotes

It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires.

I take it as a prime cause of the present confusion of society that it is too sickly and too doubtful to use pleasure as a test of value.

There is a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.

Just how difficult it is to write a biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs.

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

If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on the headstone might well be: It seemed a good idea at the time..

If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on the headstone might well be: It seemed a good idea at the time.

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

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

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.