Quotes by : Sylvia Townsend Warner

It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree,....

Wealth, if not a mere flash in the pan, compels the wealthy to become wealthier.

To think of losing is to lose already.

She was heavier than he expected - women always are.

One doesn’t become a witch to run around being harmful, or to run around being helpful either, a district....

Truth has beauty power and necessity.

That’s why we become witches: to show our scorn of pretending life’s a safe business, to satisfy....

The two women sat by the fire, tilting their glasses and drinking in small peaceful sips. The lamplight....

After a few months she left off speculating about the villagers. She admitted that there was something....

If one were to include one-tenth of the remarkable people one knows, in one's fiction, no one would accept....