Natalie Clifford Barney
Natalie Clifford Barney
Natalie Clifford Barneywas an American playwright, poet and novelist who lived as an expatriate in Paris...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth31 October 1876
CountryUnited States of America
Natalie Clifford Barney quotes about
eye hair vices
albinos aren't reproached for having pink eyes and whitish hair, why should they hold it again me for being a lesbian? It's a question of nature: my queerness isn't a vice, isn't 'deliberate,' and harms no one.
time tears faces
Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.
heroism mediocrity
Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity....
first-love sight delay
The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.
god names sin
We know all their gods; they ignore ours. What they call our sins are our gods, and what they call their gods, we name otherwise.
time waste wasting-time
Eternity - waste of time.
life novel
Novels are longer than life.
looks bibliophiles humans
I am not a bibliophile but a humanophile: I look for rare human beings.
humans human-beings sociability
I'm fond of human beings, but only one at a time.
hero today bows
Hero worship has died with heroes, and if someone bows down today, it is to pick up something.
doubt purity deny
doubt seems the only purity for those who are too fervent to deny, and too lucid to affirm.
years age-and-youth birth
Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.
pain powerful men
Perhaps a reign of powerful women is necessary to make, or unmake when need be, powerful men. Women would not waste so readily and uselessly the lives they had such care and pain in bearing. Why should they submit to the massacre of the innocent, one generation after another ... and allow them to be brought up as live-stock for the inevitable killing?
war thinking boring
To think about and prepare for war is boring, boring for everyone. It's being locked in barracks.