top of page
Exlpore more Power quotes

"It is in our authority and power to stop torment and sickness and deliver people from vanity."

"All human beings wield influence-a powerful sword granted at birth. Wield your sword with care."
Explore more quotes by Rebecca West

"The American struggle for the vote was much more difficult than the English for the simple reason that it was much more easy."

"There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience."

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

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

"We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth given up by a glass of brandy."

"Just how difficult it is to write 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."

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

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

"Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul."
bottom of page