Quotes by : Vera Brittain

It is, I think, this glamour, this magic, this incomparable keying up of the spirit in a time of mortal....

I found it not inappropriate that the years of frustration and grief and loss, of work and conflict and....

Only, I felt, by some such attempt to write history in terms of personal life could I rescue something....

Perhaps ... To R.A.L.Perhaps some day the sun will shine again,And I shall see that still the skies are....

When I was a girl . . . I imagined that life was individual, one's own affair; that the events happening....

That's the worst of sorrow . . . it's always a vicious circle. It makes one tense and hard and disagreeable,....

The fact that, within ten years, I lost one world, and after a time rose again, as it were, from spiritual....

However deep our devotion may be to parents or to children it is our contemporaries alone with whom....

People talked so foolishly, I thought, about the ennobling effects of suffering. No doubt the philosophy....

Tired as I was of conflict, I felt that I must not shrink from the fight, nor abandon in cowardice the....