Quote

It is bad for the soul to know itself a coward, it is apt to take refuge in mere wordy violence.

Radclyffe Hall

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Radclyffe Hall
Age: 63 †
Born: 1880
Born: August 12
Died: 1943
Died: October 7
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Marguerite Antonia Radclyffe-Hall
Margaret Radclyffe Hall
Marguerite Antonia Radclyffe Hall
Take
Wordy
Cowardice
Refuge
Coward
Mere
Violence
Soul

More quotes by Radclyffe Hall

Image
You're neither unnatural, nor abominable, nor mad you're as much a part of what people call nature as anyone else only you're unexplained as yet -- you've not got your niche in creation. ~ The Well of Loneliness, 1928
Radclyffe Hall
Image
clothes, after all, are a form of self-expression.
Radclyffe Hall
Image
in this world there is only toleration for the so-called normal.
Radclyffe Hall
Image
What a terrible thing could be freedom. Trees were free when they were uprooted by the wind ships were free when they were torn from their moorings men were free when they were cast out of their homes—free to starve, free to perish of cold and hunger.
Radclyffe Hall
Image
A great many women can feel and behave like men. Very few of them can behave like gentlemen.
Radclyffe Hall
Image
Wars come and wars go but the world does not change: it will always forget an indebtedness which it thinks it expedient not to remember.
Radclyffe Hall
Image
Man could not live by darkness alone, one point of light he must have for salvation -- one point of light.
Radclyffe Hall
Image
Language is surely too small a vessel to contain these emotions of mind and body that have somehow awakened a response in the spirit.
Radclyffe Hall
Image
the realization of great mutual love can at times be so overwhelming a thing, that even the bravest of hearts may grow fearful.
Radclyffe Hall