Vera Brittain Quotes (13 Quotes)


    His secret realisation of his physical cowardice led him to underrate his exceptional moral courage . . .

    I can think of few important movements for reform in which success was won by any method other than that of an energetic minority presenting the indifferent majority with a fait accompli, which was then accepted.

    For the courage of greatness is adventurous and knows not withdrawing, But grasps the nettle, danger, with resolute hands,and ever again Gathers security from the sting of pain.

    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.

    There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.


    At no previous period has mankind been faced by a half-century which so paradoxically united violence and progress. Its greater and lesser wars and long series of major assassinations have been strangely combined with the liberation of more societies and individuals than ever before in history, and by the transformation of millions of second-class citizens -- women, workers and the members of subject races -- to a stage at which first-rate achievement is no longer inhibited even if opportunities are not yet complete.

    Meek wifehood is no part of my profession; I am your friend, but never your possession.

    All that a pacifist can undertake -- but it is a very great deal -- is to refuse to kill, injure or otherwise cause suffering to another human creature, and untiringly to order his life by the rule of love though others may be captured by hate.

    The idea that it is necessary to go to a university in order to become a successful writer . . . is one of those phantasies that surround authorship.

    Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

    I thought that spring must last forevermore; For I was young and loved, and it was May.

    The pacifists, task today is to find a method of helping and healing which provides a revolutionary constructive substitute for war.

    I found in you a holy place apart, Sublime endurance, God in man revealed; Where mending broken bodies slowly healed; My broken heart.


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