Quotes by : Karen Blixen

I start with a tingle, a kind of feeling of the story I will write. Then come the characters, and they....

Within this enclosed women's world, so to say, behind the walls and fortifications of it, I felt the....

Do you know a cure for me?""Why yes," he said, "I know a cure for everything. Salt water.""Salt water?"....

I have read true piety defined as: loving one’s destiny unconditionally – and there is something....

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

He conveyed a strange impression of being in safety, and completely secure. He had a courteous little....

Hard and cruel though it may seem," said the Cardinal, "yet we, who hold our high office as keepers and....

A visitor is a friend, he brings news, good or bad, which is bread to the hungry minds in lonely places.....

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

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