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
quiet language
It is time for dead languages to be quiet.
vices harm deliberate
My queerness is not a vice, is not deliberate, and harms no one.
believer
Like all religions, love has more believers than practitioners.
prejudice defense natural
Our prejudices, our antipathies, are our natural defenses against what we could not assimilate.
personality oneself
One is not oneself every day-fortunately.
learning heart dark
A scholar's heart is a dark well in which are buried many aborted feelings that rise to the surface as arguments.
shadow
Our shadows are taller than ourselves.
sensuality
Sensuality, wanting a religion, invented Love.
rooftops difficult
... anything difficult to say must be shouted from the rooftops.
privilege tact
Indiscretion has always seemed to me to be one of the privileges of tact.
annoying passages
What makes bad writers so annoying is their good passages.
status-quo
In love there is no status quo.
said traps insincerity
Avoid that romantic trap: saying more than you feel, forcing yourself to feel more than you've said!
time tears faces
Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.