The world, with all its beauty and adventure, its richness and variety, is darkened by cruelty. Death, if it ends the loveliness, the adventure, ends also that. Death balances the picture.
It's the things you don't do, not the things you do, you feel most sorry for. - Winifred Holtby
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
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…
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
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.
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
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 …
Love needs the stiffening of respect, the give and take of equality. - Winifred Holtby
Love needs the stiffening of respect, the give and take of equality.
Really, trees are nearly as important as men, and much better behaved. - Winifred Holtby
Really, trees are nearly as important as men, and much better behaved.
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
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…
The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation; it is understanding. - Winifred Holtby
The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation; it is understanding.
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
There's never been a lack of men willing to die bravely. The trouble is to find a few able to live sensibly.
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