What are some short Sybille Bedford quotes?

"To remain monolingual reduces the mind to the confines of a tramline." "What I learnt came to me . . . at second and at third hand, in chunks and puzzles, degrees and flashes." - Sybille Bedford

How many quotes did Sybille Bedford wrote?

The author Sybille Bedford wrote around 7 of quotes.

7 Sybille Bedford Quotes on A Visit to Don Otavio, Denmark and Pleasures and Landscapes

Q: What is the best Sybille Bedford quote?

"She was also incapacitated by much of daily life and had 'no aptitude whatsoever' for domesticity." - Sybille Bedford

What I learnt came to me . . . at second and at third hand, in chunks and puzzles, degrees and flashes.

A Legacy Quotes

To remain monolingual reduces the mind to the confines of a tramline.

Quicksands: A Memoir Quotes

A devastating, a traumatic defeat, [to Germany] and the Danes might well have fallen into a Treaty of Versailles mentality. Mysteriously, they did not. Instead they redirected their aims and will; they did turn inward. They changed their agriculture from grain to dairy products, they set up cooperatives, gave their attention to social and economic advancement, chose a neutral policy, developed an altogether new kind of adult schooling. It was a chain reaction, but the links gradually forged themselves into a virtuous circuit. It has turned out well. [from "Portrait Sketch of a Country: Denmark 1962"]

Denmark Quotes Pleasures and Landscapes Quotes

War and the threat of war begin when all is not well at home. Countries that solve their own problems are no problem to others. How did it all come about; how did the Danes get that way? Why are they what they are? Was the country particularly favored? Did they try to keep the peace in the past? Did they practice religious tolerance? The answers are no. Is it then all hit or miss? As People holding a territory poor rather than rich, with a history as long, mixed, and disturbed as the next country's–are these facts that must be fed into the computer, and what might the computer's answer be? Portugal? Switzerland? Prussia? – "Portrait Sketch of a Country" (Denmark 1962)

Pleasures and Landscapes Quotes

Architecture without pain, art looked at in undiluted pleasure, enjoyment without anxiety, compunction, heartache: there is no beggar woman in the church door, no ragged child or sore animal in the square. The water is safe and the wallet is inside the pocket. There will be no missed plane connection. We are in a country where the curable ills are taken care of. We are in a country where the mechanics of living from transport to domestic heating (alack, poor Britain!) function imaginatively and well; where it goes without saying that the sick are looked after and secure and the young well educated and well trained; where ingenuity is used to heal delinquents and to mitigate at least the physical dependence of old age; where there is work for all and some individual seizure, and men and women have not been entirely alienated yet from their natural environment; where there is care for freedom and where the country as a whole has rounded the drive to power and prestige beyond its borders and where the will to peace is not eroded by doctrine, national self-love, and unmanageable fears; where people are kindly, honest, helpful, sane, reliable, resourceful, and cool-headed; where stranger–shyly–smiles to stranger. "Portrait Sketch of a Country: Denmark 1962

Denmark Quotes Pleasures and Landscapes Quotes

Guillermo was lonely and serviceable and always rushed in to do the things one wanted in a way one did not want them done.

A Visit to Don Otavio Quotes

She was also incapacitated by much of daily life and had 'no aptitude whatsoever' for domesticity.

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