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....

Dr Sass…maintained that in paradise, until the time of the fall, the whole world was flat, the back-curtain....

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.

Then Martine said: "So yuo will be poor now all your life, Babette?"Poor?" said Babette. She smiled as....

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....

Come now and let us go and risk our lives unnecessarily. For if they have got any value at all it is....

The barbarian loves his own pride, and hates, or disbelieves in, the pride of others. I will be a civilized....

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