One must be businesslike, although the glass is falling.

Tools have their own integrity.

It isn't that I don't like sweet disorder, but it has to be judiciously arranged.

however many resolutions one makes, one's pen, like water, always finds its own level, and one can't write in any way other than one's own.

Violence, passion, indignation, loyalty, integrity, incorruptibility, shameless egoism, generosity, excitability, energy, a hundred horse-power drive - none of it very subtle: Ethel [Smyth] didn't deal in pastel shades, she went for the stronger colors, the blood-red, anything deep and pumping out of the arteries of the heart.

Things were not tragic for us then, because although we cared passionately we didn't care deeply.

I worshipped dead men for their strength, Forgetting I was strong.