Katherine Mansfield Quotes

If there was one thing that he hated more than another it was the way she had of waking him in the morning. She did it on purpose, of course. It was her way of establishing her grievance for the day.

I feel like a fly who has been dropped into the milk-jug and fished out again, but is still too milky and drowned to start cleaning up yet.

How idiotic civilization is! Why be given a body if you have to keep it shut up like a rare, rare fiddle?

Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change.

The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

How idiotic civilization is! Why be given a body if you have to keep it shut up in a case like a rare, rare fiddle?

There are in life as many aspects as attitudes toward it; and aspects change with attitudes. At present we see life, generally speaking, in only a passive aspect because we bring only a passive attitude to bear upon it. Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would […]