Vera Brittain Quotes
Top 25 wise famous quotes and sayings by Vera Brittain
Vera Brittain Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Vera Brittain on Wise Famous Quotes.
At college, more than anywhere else, one was likely to make the friendships that supported one through life.
It is probably true to say that the largest scope for change still lies in men's attitude to women, and in women's attitude to themselves.
There is a strange lack of dignity in conquest; the dull, uncomplaining endurance of defeat appears more worthy of congratulation.
Her mind was like a spring-tide in full flood; rich, shining, vigorous, and capable of infinite variety.
The pacifist's task today is to find a method of helping and healing which provides a revolutionary constructive
substitute for war.
substitute for war.
There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.
The idea that it is necessary to go to a university in order to become a successful writer ... is one of those fantasies that surround authorship.
An author who waits for the right 'mood' will soon find that 'moods' get fewer and fewer until they cease altogether.
When the Great War broke out, it came to me not as a superlative tragedy, but as an interruption of the most exasperating kind to my personal plans.
However deep our devotion may be to parents or to children, it is our contemporaries alone with whom understanding is instinctive and entire.
We should never be at the mercy of Providence if only we understood that we ourselves are Providence.
[I] wondered if he was looking up at that same moon, far away, and thinking of me as I was thinking of him.
There seemed to be nothing left in the world, for I felt that Roland had taken with him all my future and Edward all my past.
I know of no place where the wind can be as icy and the damp so penetrating as in Oxford round about Easter time.