Quotes of Dame Rebecca West - somelinesforyou

“ It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion. ”

- Dame Rebecca West

“ It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion. ”

- Dame Rebecca West

“ Those who foresee the future and recognize it as tragic are often seized by a madness which forces them to commit the very acts which makes it certain that what they dread shall happen. ”

- Dame Rebecca West

“ If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on its headstone might well be: "It seemed a good idea at the time.". ”

- Dame Rebecca West

“ It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion. ”

- Dame Rebecca West

“ If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on its headstone might well be: "It seemed a good idea at the time.". ”

- Dame Rebecca West

“ It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion. ”

- Dame Rebecca West

“ If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on its headstone might well be: "It seemed a good idea at the time.". ”

- Dame Rebecca West

“ If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on its headstone might well be: "It seemed a good idea at the time.". ”

- Dame Rebecca West

“ If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on its headstone might well be: "It seemed a good idea at the time.". ”

- Dame Rebecca West

“ If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on its headstone might well be: "It seemed a good idea at the time.". ”

- Dame Rebecca West

“ Before a war, military science seems a real science, like astronomy. After a war it seems more like astrology. ”

- Dame Rebecca West

“ If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on its headstone might well be: "It seemed a good idea at the time.". ”

- Dame Rebecca West

“ It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion. ”

- Dame Rebecca West

“ It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion. ”

- Dame Rebecca West

“ If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on its headstone might well be: "It seemed a good idea at the time.". ”

- Dame Rebecca West

“ The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple. ”

- Dame Rebecca West

“ Those who foresee the future and recognize it as tragic are often seized by a madness which forces them to commit the very acts which makes it certain that what they dread shall happen. ”

- Dame Rebecca West

“ The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple. ”

- Dame Rebecca West

“ The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple. ”

- Dame Rebecca West
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