Vita Sackville-West

I suppose the pleasure of country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidences of the determination to live.

I have come to the conclusion after many years of sometimes sad experience that you cannot come to any conclusion at all.

Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.

April, the angel of the months, the young love of the year.

All craftsmen share a knowledge. They have held reality down fluttering to a bench.

I worshipped dead men for their strength, forgetting I was strong.

Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong Kong.

There are no signposts in the sea.

Among the many problems which beset the novelist, not the least weighty is the choice of the moment at which to begin his novel.

What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.

Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong-Kong.

Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.

Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.

Tools have their own integrity.

Nothing shows up the difference between the things said or read, so much as the daily experience of it.

The writer catches the changes of his mind on the hop. Growth is exciting; growth is dynamic and alarming. Growth of the soul, growth of the mind.