Quotes by Rebecca West

There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the...

#Intelligence

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

#Women

Humanity is never more sphinxlike than when it is expressing itself

#Humanity

God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.

#God

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

#Rebecca West

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

#Duty

Because hypocrisy stinks in the nostrils one is likely to rate it as a more...

#Rebecca West

Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.

#Rebecca West

All men should have a drop of treason in their veins, if nations are not...

#Rebecca West

A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go...

#Rebecca West

A copy of the universe is not what is required of art; one of the...

#Rebecca West

The American struggle for the vote was much more difficult than the English for the...

#Rebecca West