Quotes by : Isak Dinesen

Of all the idiots I have met in my life and the Lord knows that they have not been few or little I....

Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk;....

It is an alarming experience to be, in your person, representing Christianity to the natives.

I think these difficult times have helped me to understand better than before how infinitely rich and....

I think it will be truly glorious when women become real people and have the whole world open to them.....

In the mind and nature of a man a secret is an ugly thing like a hidden physical defect.

After a little while you became aware of how still it was out here. Now, looking back on my life in Africa,....

When you have a great and difficult task something perhaps almost impossible if you only work a little....

God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.

I think these difficult times have helped me to understand better than before how infinitely rich and....