Vita Sackville-West Quotes (6 quotations)
1. Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt. - Vita Sackville-West
2. I worshipped dead men for their strength, forgetting I was strong. - Vita Sackville-West
3. It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment? For the moment passes, it is forgotten; the mood is gone; life itself is gone. That is where the writer scores over his fellows: he catches the changes of his mind on the hop. - Vita Sackville-West
4. Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation. - Vita Sackville-West
5. 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. - Vita Sackville-West
6. What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful. - Vita Sackville-West
2. I worshipped dead men for their strength, forgetting I was strong. - Vita Sackville-West
3. It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment? For the moment passes, it is forgotten; the mood is gone; life itself is gone. That is where the writer scores over his fellows: he catches the changes of his mind on the hop. - Vita Sackville-West
4. Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation. - Vita Sackville-West
5. 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. - Vita Sackville-West
6. What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful. - Vita Sackville-West
