The same word passed through three minds, simultaneously, philosophical, fatalistic, the eternal refuge of the Italian: Pazienza.

- Violet Trefusis

Be wicked, be brave, be drunk, be reckless, be dissolute, be despotic, be a suffragette, be anything you like, but for pity's sake be it to the top o…

- Violet Trefusis

Heaven preserve me from littleness and pleasantness and smoothness. Give me great glaring vices, and great glaring virtues, but preserve me from the …

- Violet Trefusis

I don't like museums; there's nothing to buy.

- Violet Trefusis

Do you think that love has to be requited to be genuine? On the contrary, it thrives on indifference.

- Violet Trefusis

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

- Violet Trefusis