Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Best Katherine Mansfield Quotes Ever

Looking for Katherine Mansfield quotes? Here are 10 of the best Katherine Mansfield quotes ever. Hope you enjoy them as these are my all time favourite quotes by Katherine Mansfield, New Zealand's best loved short story writer.

Katherine Mansfield Quotes About Acceptance
Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.
Katherine Mansfield 1888-1923

Quoted in A. R. Orage, "Talks with Katherine Mansfield at Fontainbleu," The Century Magazine (November 1924)

Katherine Mansfield Quotes About Friendship
I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
Katherine Mansfield 1888-1923

I am treating you as my friend, asking you to share my present minuses in the hope I can ask you to share my future pluses.
Katherine Mansfield 1888-1923
Quoted in Katherine Mansfield: The Memories of L.M.

Katherine Mansfield Quotes About Failure
When we begin to take our failures non-seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.
Katherine Mansfield 1888-1923
Journal Entry (October 1922)

Katherine Mansfield Quotes About Courage, Risk, Independence
Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.
Katherine Mansfield 1888-1923
Journal Entry (14 October 1922)

Katherine Mansfield Quotes About Love
This is not a letter but my arms around you for a brief moment.
Katherine Mansfield 1888-1923
Letter to Murry
The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield (1984-1996), vol. I

Katherine Mansfield and John Middleton Murry
If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.
Katherine Mansfield 1888-1923
Journal Entry (1917)

Katherine Mansfield Quotes About Writing
Would you not like to try all sorts of lives - one is so very small - but that is the satisfaction of writing - one can impersonate so many people.
Katherine Mansfield 1888-1923
Letter to Sylvia Payne
The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield (1984-1996), vol. I

Katherine Mansfield Quotes About Regret
I have made it a rule of my life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can't build on it it's only good for wallowing in.
Katherine Mansfield 1888-1923
"Je ne parle pas français," from Bliss and Other Stories (1920)

Katherine Mansfield Quotes About Self Actualization, Self Awareness
I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming ...
Katherine Mansfield 1888-1923
Journal Entry (10 October 1922)

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