Quotes By Rebecca West

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The memory, experiencing and re-experiencing, has such power over one's mere personal life, that one has merely lived.