It's the things you don't do, not the things you do, you feel most sorry for.

- Winifred Holtby

Nature is not silent, and never was a name more derisively inappropriate than when we speak of these non-human creatures who hoot and crow and bray a…

- Winifred Holtby

This alone is to be feared - the closed mind, the sleeping imagination, the death of the spirit. The death of the body is to that, I think, a little …

- Winifred Holtby

Love needs the stiffening of respect, the give and take of equality.

- Winifred Holtby

We're so busy resigning ourselves to the inevitable that we don't even ask if it is inevitable. We've got to have courage, to take our future into ou…

- Winifred Holtby

Really, trees are nearly as important as men, and much better behaved.

- Winifred Holtby

A sense of humor is so handy, isn't it? It lets you see both sides of a question so that you never need do anything.

- Winifred Holtby

The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation; it is understanding.

- Winifred Holtby

There's never been a lack of men willing to die bravely. The trouble is to find a few able to live sensibly.

- Winifred Holtby