Vita Sackville-West Quotes

Vita Sackville-West — English Novelist born on March 09, 1892, died on June 02, 1962

The Hon. Victoria Mary Sackville-West, Lady Nicolson, CH, usually known as Vita Sackville-West, was an English poet, novelist, and garden designer. A successful and prolific novelist, poet, and journalist during her lifetime—she was twice awarded the Hawthornden Prize for Imaginative Literature: in 1927 for her pastoral epic, The Land, and in 1933 for her Collected Poems—today she is chiefly remembered for the celebrated garden at Sissinghurst she created with her diplomat husband, Sir Harold Nicolson. She is also remembered as the inspiration for the androgynous protagonist of the historical romp, Orlando: A Biography by her famous friend and admirer, Virginia Woolf, with whom she had an affair... (wikipedia)

Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong Kong.

Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.

What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.

I worshipped dead men for their strength, forgetting I was strong.

Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.