Quotes from Vita Sackville-West

I suppose the pleasure of country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidences of the determination to live.

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

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

It isn't that I don't like sweet disorder, but it has to be judiciously arranged.

I miss you even more than I could have believed; and I was prepared to miss you a good deal.