List of Winifred Holtby Quotes

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Winifred Holtby
Total Quotes 55
It is better to take experience, to suffer, to love, and to remember than to walk unscathed between the fires. i've had most immunities myself - the result of an independent income combined with a personality completely devoid of sexual attractions - the two fires of poverty and passion have therefore never burned me, and i am a lesser person for my safety.
Passion Independent Fire
The more i see of dogs, the more i like children.
Dog Children
If we haven't a grouch against fortune, we seem unable to avoid one against ourselves.
Fortune Grouches Havens
Surely, if life is good, it is good throughout its substance; we cannot separate men's activities from women's and say, these are worthy of praise and these unworthy.
Life Is Good Equality Men
Is this the final treachery of time, that the old become a burden upon the young?
Time Age Finals
[on golf:] one of the most distressing defects of civilization.
Golf Civilization Defects
Public work brings a vicarious but assured sense of immortality. we may be poor, weak, timid, in debt to our landlady, bullied by our nieces, stiff in the joints, shortsighted and distressed; we shall perish, but the cause endures; the cause is great.
Niece Debt May
All adventuring is rash, and all innovations dangerous. but not nearly so dangerous as stagnation and dry rot. from grooves, cliques, clichés and resignation - good lord deliver us!
Innovation Dry Lord
What with the reviews of critics, the sarcasms of one's friends, the reproaches of one's own taste, there's precious little peace after publishing a book.
Book Sarcasm Littles
Progress? it ought to be stopped, that's what i say. if the lord meant chickens to come out of incubators he'd never have made hens, it stands to reason.
Change Progress Hens
The only difficulty is to know what bits to choose and what to leave out. novel-writing is not creation, it is selection.
Writing Creation Difficulty
Why haven't we seventy lives? one is no use.
Use Seventies Havens
  • Born: June 23, 1898
  • Died: September 29, 1935
  • Occupation: Novelist
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