Winifred Holtby
Winifred Holtby
Winifred Holtbywas an English novelist and journalist, now best known for her novel South Riding, which was posthumously published in 1936...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth23 June 1898
dream want
The things that one most wants to do are the things that are probably most worth doing.
ends brevity-of-life tolerable
it is the brevity of life which makes it tolerable; its experiences have value because they have an end.
stars distance light
We each live in a private, distorted, individual world - stars turning in space, warmed for a moment by each other's light, then lost in infinite distance.
humor sides needs
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.
happiness frustration reality
Sorrow and frustration have their power. The world is moved by people with great discontents. Happiness is a drug. It can make men blind and deaf and insensible to reality. There are times when only sorrow can give to sorrow.
inspirational-life understanding crowns
The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation; it is understanding.
fate men water
Life flows on over death as water closes over a stone dropped into a pool. ... Fate is certain; death is certain; but the courage and nobility of men and women matter more than these.
hard-work fierce
I am fierce for work. Without work I am nothing.
time enemy betray
Oh, time betrays us. Time is the great enemy ...
strong legends defeat
no truth is strong enough to defeat a well-established legend.
adventure balance world
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.
people mind body
I am much perturbed by this business of sickness. Our bodies seem so easily to leap into the saddle where our minds should be. People who are ill become changelings.
happiness thinking golden-days
You are quite, quite wrong if you think that ... I find your happiness painful. What matters is that happiness - the golden day - should exist in the world, not much to whom it comes. For all of us it is so transitory a thing, how could one not draw joy from its arrival?
peace men able
There's never been a lack of men willing to die bravely. The trouble is to find a few able to live sensibly.