Quotes by : Vera Brittain

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

I am less blindly confident than I once was, for I have been learning a truer estimate of myself, my....

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

Why, I wondered, do people who at one time or another have all been young themselves, who ought therefore....

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....

How fortunate we were who still had hope I did not then realise; I could not know how soon the time would....

...if only the comfortable prosperity of the Victorian age hadn't lulled us into a false conviction of....