Rebecca West Quotes
Most popular Rebecca West Quotes
![He is every other inch a gentleman. - Rebecca West quote.](/img/q/52/23752A-he-is-every-other-inch-a-gentleman-rebecca-west.png)
He is every other inch a gentleman.
![Man is a hating rather than a loving animal. - Rebecca West quote.](/img/q/46/35446A-man-is-a-hating-rather-than-loving-animal-rebecca-west.png)
Man is a hating rather than a loving animal.
![A good cause has to be careful of the company it keeps. - Rebecca West quote.](/img/q/18/27718A-a-good-cause-has-to-be-careful-company-it-keeps-rebecca-west.png)
A good cause has to be careful of the company it keeps.
![He does not so much split his infinitives as disembowel them. - Rebecca West quote.](/img/q/42/32142A-he-does-not-so-much-split-his-infinitives-as-disembowel-rebecca-west.png)
He does not so much split his infinitives as disembowel them.
![The law, like art, is always vainly racing to catch up with experience. - Rebecca West quote.](/img/q/34/34434A-the-law-like-art-is-always-vainly-racing-catch-up-rebecca-west.png)
The law, like art, is always vainly racing to catch up with experience.
![The choice between law and justice is an easy one for courageous minds. - Rebecca West quote.](/img/q/36/34436A-the-choice-between-law-and-justice-is-easy-one-courageous-rebecca-west.png)
The choice between law and justice is an easy one for courageous minds.
![Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse. - Rebecca West quote.](/img/q/77/36177A-motherhood-is-the-strangest-thing-it-can-be-like-being-rebecca-west.png)
Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.
![Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience. - Rebecca West quote.](/img/q/15/26515A-any-authentic-work-of-art-must-start-argument-between-artist-rebecca-west.png)
Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.
![I find to my astonishment that an unhappy marriage goes on being unhappy when it is over. - Rebecca West quote.](/img/q/26/29726A-i-find-to-my-astonishment-that-unhappy-marriage-goes-being-rebecca-west.png)
I find to my astonishment that an unhappy marriage goes on being unhappy when it is over.
![Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication. - Rebecca West quote.](/img/q/14/26514A-most-works-of-art-like-most-wines-ought-be-consumed-rebecca-west.png)
Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.
![Life ought to be a struggle of desire towards adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul. - Rebecca West quote.](/img/q/01/40201A-life-ought-to-be-a-struggle-desire-towards-adventures-whose-rebecca-west.png)
Life ought to be a struggle of desire towards adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.
![It is queer how it is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster. - Rebecca West quote.](/img/q/76/41676A-it-is-queer-how-it-is-always-ones-virtues-not-rebecca-west.png)
It is queer how it is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.
![So life ought to be a struggle of desire towards adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul. - Rebecca West quote.](/img/q/88/25388A-so-life-ought-to-be-a-struggle-desire-towards-adventures-rebecca-west.png)
So life ought to be a struggle of desire towards adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.
![It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion. - Rebecca West quote.](/img/q/23/37023A-it-is-the-souls-duty-to-be-loyal-its-own-rebecca-west.png)
It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
![There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence. - Rebecca West quote.](/img/q/87/26487A-there-is-no-logical-reason-why-camel-great-art-should-rebecca-west.png)
There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence.
![There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all. - Rebecca West quote.](/img/q/47/28647A-there-is-no-such-thing-as-conversation-it-is-illusion-rebecca-west.png)
There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all.
![Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology. - Rebecca West quote.](/img/q/14/41914A-before-a-war-military-science-seems-real-science-like-astronomy-rebecca-west.png)
Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.
![I wonder if we are all wrong about each other, if we are just composing unwritten novels about the people we meet? - Rebecca West quote.](/img/q/94/41494A-i-wonder-if-we-are-all-wrong-about-each-other-rebecca-west.png)
I wonder if we are all wrong about each other, if we are just composing unwritten novels about the people we meet?
![I have no faith in the sense of comforting beliefs which persuade me that all my troubles are blessings in disguise. - Rebecca West quote.](/img/q/74/27074A-i-have-no-faith-in-the-sense-comforting-beliefs-which-rebecca-west.png)
I have no faith in the sense of comforting beliefs which persuade me that all my troubles are blessings in disguise.
![Because hypocrisy stinks in the nostrils one is likely to rate it as a more powerful agent for destruction than it is. - Rebecca West quote.](/img/q/38/33138A-because-hypocrisy-stinks-in-the-nostrils-one-is-likely-rate-rebecca-west.png)
Because hypocrisy stinks in the nostrils one is likely to rate it as a more powerful agent for destruction than it is.
![To make laws is a human instinct that arises as soon as food and shelter have been ensured, among all peoples, everywhere. - Rebecca West quote.](/img/q/35/34435A-to-make-laws-is-a-human-instinct-that-arises-as-rebecca-west.png)
To make laws is a human instinct that arises as soon as food and shelter have been ensured, among all peoples, everywhere.
![If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on its headstone might well be: "It seemed a good idea at the time." - Rebecca West quote.](/img/q/99/32999A-if-the-whole-human-race-lay-one-grave-epitaph-its-rebecca-west.png)
If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on its headstone might well be: "It seemed a good idea at the time."
!["Did St. Francis preach to the birds?" asked Kate. "Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to cats." - Rebecca West quote.](/img/q/57/27157A-did-st-francis-preach-to-the-birds-asked-kate-whatever-rebecca-west.png)
"Did St. Francis preach to the birds?" asked Kate. "Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to cats."
![Submission to unhappiness is the unpardonable sin against the spirit just as submission to poverty is the unpardonable sin against the body. - Rebecca West quote.](/img/q/57/32557A-submission-to-unhappiness-is-the-unpardonable-sin-against-spirit-just-rebecca-west.png)
Submission to unhappiness is the unpardonable sin against the spirit just as submission to poverty is the unpardonable sin against the body.
![There was 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. - Rebecca West quote.](/img/q/10/17210A-there-was-a-definite-process-by-which-one-made-people-rebecca-west.png)
There was 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.
![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 door mat. - Rebecca West quote.](/img/q/98/11598A-i-myself-have-never-been-able-find-out-precisely-what-rebecca-west.png)
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 door mat.
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 or a prostitute.