Quotes by : Isak Dinesen

The true aristocracy and the true proletariat of the world are both in understanding with tragedy. To....

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

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

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

Man reaches the highest point of lovableness at 12 to 17 - to get it back in a second flowering at....

I don't think that... one gets a flash of happiness once and never again it is there within you and....

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....

The cure for anything is salt water. Sweat, tears, or the ocean.