To think of losing is to lose already.

- Sylvia Townsend Warner

There is a moral, of course, and like all morals it is better not pursued.

- Sylvia Townsend Warner

Happy is the day whose history is not written down.

- Sylvia Townsend Warner

Truth has beauty, power, and necessity.

- Sylvia Townsend Warner

One cannot overestimate the power of a good rancorous hatred on the part of the stupid. The stupid have so much more industry and energy to expend on…

- Sylvia Townsend Warner

The fatal flaw of gravity; when you are down, everything falls down on you.

- Sylvia Townsend Warner

It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before one dies.

- Sylvia Townsend Warner

Slowly, with a look of intense concentration, he got up and advanced on me ... put out a front paw, and stroked my cheek as I used to stoke his chops…

- Sylvia Townsend Warner

And another day is tucked under my wing.

- Sylvia Townsend Warner