Vita Sackville-West Quotes

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Ambition, old as mankind, the immemorial weakness of the strong. - Vita Sackville-West quote.
Ambition, old as mankind, the immemorial weakness of the strong.
— Vita Sackville-West No Signposts in the Sea

ambition

That pathetic short-cut suggested by Nature the supreme joker as a remedy for our loneliness. - Vita Sackville-West quote.
That pathetic short-cut suggested by Nature the supreme joker as a remedy for our loneliness.
— Vita Sackville-West No Signposts in the Sea

sex

A flowerless room is a soulless room, to my way of thinking; but even one solitary little vase of a living flower may redeem it. - Vita Sackville-West quote.
A flowerless room is a soulless room, to my way of thinking; but even one solitary little vase of a living flower may redeem it.
— Vita Sackville-West Vita Sackville-West’s Garden Book

flowers

It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment? - Vita Sackville-West quote.
It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment?
— Vita Sackville-West Twelve Days

why I write