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One need not write in a diary what one is to remember for ever.
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
I seem to use this word 'kind' very frequently. When one is unhappy or anxious it is a quality one dwells on.
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
There is a moral, of course, and like all morals it is better not pursued.
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
Truth has beauty, power, and necessity.
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
She had thrown away twenty years of her life like a handful of old rags, but the wind had blown them back again, and dressed her in the old uniform.
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
Love is the only real patriation, and without one's dear one sits in a dreary and boring exile.
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
Sneezes ... always sound much louder to the sneezer than to the hearers. It is an acoustical peculiarity.
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
God, an enormous darkness, hung looped over half her sky, an ever-present menace, a cloud waiting to break.
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
Cooking is the most succulent of human pleasures.
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
Possessiveness cannot accept; it cannot even strike a fair bargain; it has to confer.
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
All encounters with children are touched with social embarrassment.
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
Inflation is the senility of democracies.
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
When I die, I hope to think I have annoyed a great many people.
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
No one wants to be praised for possibilities when one has submitted performances.
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
And another day is tucked under my wing.
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
But what are wishes, compared with longings?
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
Only two things are real to me: my love and my death. In between them, I merely exist as a scatter of senses.
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
![Sylvia Townsend Warner Quotes By Sylvia Townsend Warner: [On an anarchist acquaintance:] Everything in appearance the](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/sylvia-townsend-warner-quotes-by-sylvia-townsend-warner-957548.jpg "Sylvia Townsend Warner Quotes By Sylvia Townsend Warner: [On an anarchist acquaintance:] Everything in appearance the")
[On an anarchist acquaintance:] Everything in appearance the most alarmist aunt could wish.
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
Laura was not in any way religious. She was not even religious enough to speculate towards irreligion.
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
To think of losing is to lose already.
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
General de Gaulle is again pictured in our newspapers, looking as usual like an embattled codfish.
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
I wish I could be a grandmother. It is wanton extravagance to have had a youth with no one to tell of it to when one grows old.
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
Anticipation of pleasure is a pleasure in itself.
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
Of all damnable offenses preaching prudence to the young is the most damnable.
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
Spring is strictly sentimental, self-regarding; but I burn more careless in the autumn bonfire.
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
I wasn't educated. I was very lucky.
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
One cannot revoke a true happiness.
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
Children driven good are apt to be driven mad.
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
Happiness is an immunity.
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
There are not enough poems in praise of bed ...
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
The fatal flaw of gravity; when you are down, everything falls down on you.
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
Wealth, if not a mere flash in the pan, compels the wealthy to become wealthier.
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
Nine people out of ten (in Germany and England, perhaps ten people) would rather wait for their rights than fight for their rights.
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
The baby romped on my lap like a short stout salmon.
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
My blood ran with this ink...
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
Is it the realization that people recently psychoanalyzed tend to be dreadful bores which makes the U.S.A. army reject them for the draft?
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
When the German propaganda tries to be winsome it is like a clown with homicidal mania - ludicrous and terrifying both at once.
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
Noise is a pollution.
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
![Sylvia Townsend Warner Quotes By Sylvia Townsend Warner: [John Craske] painted like a man giving witness](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/sylvia-townsend-warner-quotes-by-sylvia-townsend-warner-843409.jpg "Sylvia Townsend Warner Quotes By Sylvia Townsend Warner: [John Craske] painted like a man giving witness")
[John Craske] painted like a man giving witness under oath to a wild story.
— 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
For the last six weeks I have found myself pestered by some characters in search of an author ...
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
Idleness is righteous if it is comfortable. Uncomfortable idleness is sin & sinful waste.
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
all her thoughts slid together again like a pack of hounds that have picked up the scent.
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
Young people are careless of their virginity; one day they may have it and the next not.
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
Total grief is like a minefield. No knowing when one will touch the tripwire.
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
Love amazes, but it does not surprise.
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
Belligerents always abolish war after a war.
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
Happy is the day whose history is not written down.
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
You are only young once. At the time it seems endless, and is gone in a flash; and then for a very long time you are old.
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
Elizabeth ... had the prerogative of the rich that she could be generous with large sums and niggardly over small ones ...
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
She was heavier than he expected - women always are.
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
Reason is a poor hand at prophecies.
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
