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![One of Mr. [Thomas] Hardy’s ancestors must have married a weeping willow. There are pages and pages in his collected poems which are simply plain narratives in ballad form of how an unenjoyable time was had by all Picture Quote #1](https://img.picturequotes.com/2/808/807113/807113.webp "One of Mr. [Thomas] Hardy’s ancestors must have married a weeping willow. There are pages and pages in his collected poems which are simply plain narratives in ballad form of how an unenjoyable time was had by all Picture Quote #1")
![The [nineteenth-century] young men who were Puritans in politics were anti-Puritans in literature. They were willing to die for the independence of Poland or the Manchester Fenians; and they relaxed their tension by voluptuous reading in Swinburne Picture Quote #1](https://img.picturequotes.com/2/815/814699/814699.webp "The [nineteenth-century] young men who were Puritans in politics were anti-Puritans in literature. They were willing to die for the independence of Poland or the Manchester Fenians; and they relaxed their tension by voluptuous reading in Swinburne Picture Quote #1")
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![Like all bad drivers, he thought he was the best driver in the world. [husband Henry Andrews] Picture Quote #1](https://img.picturequotes.com/2/854/853735/853735.webp "Like all bad drivers, he thought he was the best driver in the world. [husband Henry Andrews] Picture Quote #1")
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A good cause has to be careful of the company it keeps (Rebecca West Quotes)
It seemed a good idea at the time (Rebecca West Quotes)
The unsuccessful bully can always become the father of a family (Rebecca West Quotes)
No great thing happens suddenly (Rebecca West Quotes)
The choice between law and justice is an easy one for courageous minds (Rebecca West Quotes)
The law, like art, is always vainly racing to catch up with experience (Rebecca West Quotes)
Where there is real love one wants to go to church first (Rebecca West Quotes)
There is no escape from mystery. It is the character of our being (Rebecca West Quotes)
It is astonishing how the human animal survives its misfortunes (Rebecca West Quotes)
Unhappy people are dangerous (Rebecca West Quotes)
Man is a hating rather than a loving animal (Rebecca West Quotes)
Like all bad drivers, he thought he was the best driver in the world (Rebecca West Quotes)
I write books to find out about things (Rebecca West Quotes)
It is queer how it is always one’s virtues and not one’s vices that precipitate one into disaster (Rebecca West Quotes)
If the poor ever feel poor as the rich do, we will have a most bloody revolution (Rebecca West Quotes)
To make laws is a human instinct that arises as soon as food and shelter have been ensured, among all peoples, everywhere (Rebecca West Quotes)
It’s an absurd error to put modern English literature in the curriculum. You should read contemporary literature for pleasure or not at all. You shouldn’t be taught to monkey with it (Rebecca West Quotes)
I do not myself find it agreeable to be 90, and I cannot imagine why it should seem so to other people. It is not that you have any fears about your own death, it is that your upholstery is already dead around you (Rebecca West Quotes)
I’ve never gone anywhere where the men have come up to my infantile expectations. I always have gone through life constantly being surprised by the extreme, marvelous qualities of a small minority of men. But I can’t see the rest of them. They seem awful rubbish (Rebecca West Quotes)
After any disturbance (such as two world wars coinciding with a period of growing economic and monetary incomprehensibility) we find our old concepts inadequate and look for new ones. But it unfortunately happens that the troubled times which produce an appetite for new ideas are the least propitious for clear thinking (Rebecca West Quotes)
The happy marriage, which is the only proper nursery, is indissoluble. The unhappy marriage, which perpetually tells the child a bogey-man story about life, ought to be dissolved (Rebecca West Quotes)
One of Mr. [Thomas] Hardy’s ancestors must have married a weeping willow. There are pages and pages in his collected poems which are simply plain narratives in ballad form of how an unenjoyable time was had by all (Rebecca West Quotes)
... when the Spaniards persecuted heretics they may have been crude, but they were not being unreasonable or unpractical. They were at least wiser than the people of to-day who pretend that it does not matter what a man believes, as who should say that the flavour and digestibility of a pudding will have nothing to do with its ingredients (Rebecca West Quotes)
The [nineteenth-century] young men who were Puritans in politics were anti-Puritans in literature. They were willing to die for the independence of Poland or the Manchester Fenians; and they relaxed their tension by voluptuous reading in Swinburne (Rebecca West Quotes)
A bad short story or novel or poem leaves one comparatively calm because it does not exist, unless it gets a fake prestige throughbeing mistaken for good work. It is essentially negative, it is something that has not come through. But over bad criticism one has a sense of real calamity (Rebecca West Quotes)
The redemptive power of divine grace no longer seemed credible, nor very respectable in the arbitrary performance that was claimed for it. (Rebecca West Quotes)
Like all bad drivers, he thought he was the best driver in the world. [husband Henry Andrews] (Rebecca West Quotes)
It is not possible that a just God should forgive people who are wicked because another person who was good endured agony by being nailed to a cross. (Rebecca West Quotes)
I believe if people are looking for the truth, the truth of the Christian religion will come out and meet them. (Rebecca West Quotes)
Now different races and nationalities cherish different ideals of society that stink in each other’s nostrils with an offensiveness beyond the power of any but the most monstrous private deed. (Rebecca West Quotes)