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....

It is difficult to restrain admirers of Shakespeare once they have begun to speak of him.

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

The real difference between God and human beings, he thought, was that God cannot stand continuance.....

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

Love the pride of the conquered nations, and leave them to honour their father and their mother.

No,” he said after a pause, “the true art of the gods is the comic. The comic is a condescension....

If I know a song of Africa, of the giraffe and the African new moon lying on her back, of the plows in....

There are things which cannot be carried through even with the good will of everybody concerned