Quotes by Winifred Holtby

Winifred Holtby

[On golf:] One of the most distressing defects of civilization.

Civilization

Defects

Golf

But questioning does not mean the end of loving, and loving does not mean the abnegation of intelligence

Doe

Ends

Mean

But to write – that is grief and labor; and to read what one has written – how unlike the story as one saw it; how dull, how spirtless – that is enough to send one weeping to bed.

Bed

Grief

Writing

I advise nobody to drown sorrow in cocoa. It is bad for the figure and it does not alleviate the sorrow.

Chocolate

Doe

Sorrow

I am fierce for work. Without work I am nothing.

Fierce

Hard Work

I am much perturbed by this business of sickness. Our bodies seem so easily to leap into the saddle where our minds should be. People who are ill become changelings.

Body

Mind

People

I find you in all small and lovely things; in the little fishes like flames in the green water, in the furred and stupid softness of bumble-bees fat as laughter, in all the chiming radiance of warmth and light and scent in the summer garden.

Laughter

Stupid

Summer

If you are rich, you have lovely cars, and jars full of flowers, and books in rows, and a wireless, and the best sort of gramophone and meringues for supper.

Book

Car

Flower

It’s the things you don’t do, not the things you do, you feel most sorry for.

Feels

Regret

Sorry

Life flows on over death as water closes over a stone dropped into a pool. … Fate is certain; death is certain; but the courage and nobility of men and women matter more than these.

Fate

Life And Death

Men

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Quotes by Winifred Holtby

Winifred Holtby

[On golf:] One of the most distressing defects of civilization.

But questioning does not mean the end of loving, and loving does not mean the abnegation of intelligence

But to write – that is grief and labor; and to read what one has written – how unlike the story as one saw it; how dull, how spirtless – that is enough to send one weeping to bed.

I advise nobody to drown sorrow in cocoa. It is bad for the figure and it does not alleviate the sorrow.

I am fierce for work. Without work I am nothing.

I am much perturbed by this business of sickness. Our bodies seem so easily to leap into the saddle where our minds should be. People who are ill become changelings.

I find you in all small and lovely things; in the little fishes like flames in the green water, in the furred and stupid softness of bumble-bees fat as laughter, in all the chiming radiance of warmth and light and scent in the summer garden.

If you are rich, you have lovely cars, and jars full of flowers, and books in rows, and a wireless, and the best sort of gramophone and meringues for supper.

It’s the things you don’t do, not the things you do, you feel most sorry for.

Life flows on over death as water closes over a stone dropped into a pool. … Fate is certain; death is certain; but the courage and nobility of men and women matter more than these.

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