Quotes from Dame Rebecca West

Those who foresee the future and recognize it as tragic are often seized by a madness which forces them to commit the very acts which makes it certain that what they dread shall happen.

The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.

Before a war, military science seems a real science, like astronomy. After a war it seems more like astrology.

Those who foresee the future and recognize it as tragic are often seized by a madness which forces them to commit the very acts which made it certain that what they dread shall happen.