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....

She had what the Councillor knew, in the technical language of the ballet, as "ballon", a lightness that....

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....

There is hardly any other sphere in which prejudice and superstition of the most horrific kind have been....

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

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

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

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