Sylvia Townsend Warner Quotes

Is it the realization that people recently psychoanalyzed tend to be dreadful bores which makes the U.S.A. army reject them for the draft?

One need not write in a diary what one is to remember for ever.

But what are wishes, compared with longings?

For the last six weeks I have found myself pestered by some characters in search of an author.

The Church has lost a great religious poet in me; but I have lost an infinity of fun in the church, so the loss is even.

Sneezes ... always sound much louder to the sneezer than to the hearers. It is an acoustical peculiarity.

General de Gaulle is again pictured in our newspapers, looking as usual like an embattled codfish.

Truth has beauty power and necessity.

If one were to include one-tenth of the remarkable people one knows, in one's fiction, no one would accept it. Real life remains one's private menagerie.