In England and America a beard usually means that its owner would rather be considered venerable than virile; on the continent of Europe it often means that its owner makes a special claim to virility.
Rebecca WestI have never been able to write with anything more than the left hand of my mind; the right hand has always been engaged in something to do with personal relationships. I don't complain, because I think my left hand's power, as much as it has, is due to its knowledge of what my right hand is doing.
Rebecca WestThe main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.
Rebecca WestWriting has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind.
Rebecca WestThe trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.
Rebecca WestMozart eliminates the idea of haste from life. His airs could not lag as they make their journey through the listener's attention; they are not the right shape for loitering. But it is as true that they never rush, they are never headlong or helter-skelter, they splash no mud, they raise no dust.
Rebecca West