Quotes by : Vita Sackville-West

I have come to the conclusion, after many years of sometimes sad experience, that you cannot come to....

Ambition old as mankind the immemorial weakness of the strong.

There is nothing more lovely in life than the union of two people whose love for one another has grown....

My dear Mr FitzGeorge!' cried Lady Slane. 'You really mustn't talk as though my life had been a tragedy.....

Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in....

And still the strange meaningless conversations continue, and I wonder more and more at the fabric which....

So prodigal was I of youth Forgetting I was young I worshipped dead men for their strength Forgetting....

I worshipped dead men for their strength, forgetting I was strong.

Not seeing is half-believing.

I believe that the main thing in beginning a novel is to feel, not that you can write it, but that it....