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
mean writing thinking
I can't think why I was cursed with this inordinate desire to write, if the high gods weren't going to give me some more adquate means of expressing myself than that which my present pedestrian prose affords.
mean thinking color
I like a bit of color myself, I must say. At my time of life, if you wear nothing but black, people might think you were too mean to change frocks between funerals.
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?
sleep thinking imagination
This alone is to be feared - the closed mind, the sleeping imagination, the death of the spirit. The death of the body is to that, I think, a little thing.
built death fortress future line lives safety violently war whose word youth
These are they whose youth was violently severed by war and death; a word on the telephone, a scribbled line on paper, and their future ceased. They have built up their lives again, but their safety is not absolute, their fortress not impregnable.
god life shall till work
God give me work, till my life shall end/And life, till my work is done.
dream want
The things that one most wants to do are the things that are probably most worth doing.
time age finals
Is this the final treachery of time, that the old become a burden upon the young?
tragedy nuisance
Everybody's tragedy is somebody's nuisance.
teacher teaching government
Teachers have power. We may cripple them by petty economics; by Government regulations, by the foolish criticism of an uninformed press; but their power exists for good or evil ...
suicide grief youth
Youth knows no remedy for grief but death.
voice opinion lecturer
the ruder lecturers are, and the louder their voices, the more converts they make to their opinions.
regret affliction cures
Remorse ... is one of the many afflictions for which time finds a cure.
progress too-much deals
Progress. There's a good deal too much o' this progress about nowadays, an', what's more, it'll have to stop.