Vera Brittain Inspirational Quotes (31)

Most men, whether men or women, wish above all else to be comfortable, and thought is a pre-eminently uncomfortable process it brings to the individual far more suffering than happiness in a semi-civilised world which still goes to war.

Venice is all sea and sculpture.

few things are more rewarding than a child's open uncalculating devotion.

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.

belated maternity has had its compensations small children have a habit of conferring persistent youth upon their parents, and by their eager vitality postpone the unenterprising cautions and timidities of middle age.

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.

I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading.