Violet Trefusis Quotes

• Heaven preserve me from littleness and pleasantness and smoothness. Give me great glaring vices, and great glaring virtues, but preserve me from the neat little neutral ambiguities. Be wicked, be brave, be drunk, be reckless, be dissolute, be despotic, be a suffragette, be anything you like, but for pity's sake be it to the top of your bent. Live fully, live passionately, live disastrously. Let's live, you and I, as none have ever lived before.

  Violet Trefusis

  Drunk, Giving, Brave

  Said to Sackville-West. "Portrait of a Marriage: Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson". Book by Nigel Nicolson, p. 148, 1998.

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• Be wicked, be brave, be drunk, be reckless, be dissolute, be despotic, be a suffragette, be anything you like, but for pity's sake be it to the top of your bent.

  Violet Trefusis

  Drunk, Brave, Wicked

  Violet Keppel Trefusis, Mitchell Alexander Leaska (1991). “Violet to Vita: the letters of Violet Trefusis to Vita Sackville-West, 1910-21”, Viking Adult

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• I don't like museums; there's nothing to buy.

  Violet Trefusis

  Museums

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• Do you think that love has to be requited to be genuine? On the contrary, it thrives on indifference.

  Violet Trefusis

  Thinking, Indifference, Genuine

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• You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

  Violet Trefusis

  Love, Government, Mistress

  Violet Keppel Trefusis, Mitchell Alexander Leaska (1991). “Violet to Vita: the letters of Violet Trefusis to Vita Sackville-West, 1910-21”, Viking Adult

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• The same word passed through three minds, simultaneously, philosophical, fatalistic, the eternal refuge of the Italian: Pazienza.

  Violet Trefusis

  Patience, Philosophical, Italian

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