Natalie Clifford Barney Quotes

Silence too can be indiscreet.

Might I be the one I am looking for?

To be married is to be neither alone nor together.

Seeking revenge: what a lack of foresight.

doubt seems the only purity for those who are too fervent to deny, and too lucid to affirm.

We know all their gods; they ignore ours. What they call our sins are our gods, and what they call their gods, we name otherwise.

A scholar's heart is a dark well in which are buried many aborted feelings that rise to the surface as arguments.

To those who ask if I have read their book, I reply: I have not yet read Homer.

Indiscretion has always seemed to me to be one of the privileges of tact.

Paris has always seemed ... the only city where you can live and express yourself as you please.

Fatalism is a lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.