All wealth is relative; and so is its absence.

- Sybille Bedford

One does odd things. You see, when one's young one doesn't feel part of it yet, the human condition; one does things because they are not “for good”;…

- Sybille Bedford

I detest . . . anything over-cooked, over-herbed, over-sauced, over elaborate. Nothing can go very far wrong at table as long as there is honest brea…

- Sybille Bedford

public opinion, the sum of private opinions, does matter, can matter often for good.

- Sybille Bedford

In Europe, where human relations like clothes are supposed to last, one's got to be wearable. In France one has to be interesting, in Italy pleasant,…

- Sybille Bedford

The future of human society. Had it made an irrevocably false start? The compass error that gets harder to correct with every mile you go?

- Sybille Bedford

All food is the gift of the gods and has something of the miraculous, the egg no less than the truffle.

- Sybille Bedford

A part, a large part, of traveling is an engagement of the ego v. the world. The world is hydra headed, as old as the rocks and as changing as the se…

- Sybille Bedford

I write because I'm a writer. It is rather like cooking: to make something out of the raw material at hand.

- Sybille Bedford