Authors:

Natalie Clifford Barney Quotes - Page 3

All Quotes Literature
In love there is no status quo.

In love there is no status quo.

Natalie Clifford Barney
Status Quo
Natalie Clifford Barney, Anna Livia (1992). “A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney”, p.112, New Victoria Publishers

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Natalie Clifford Barney
First Love, Sight, Cynical
"Samples from Almost Illegible Notebooks". Adam International Review, No. 299, 1962.

All expression, all art, is an indiscretion we commit against ourselves. This is not an 'impoverishment' but an increase in wealth, for it is in this way that we make the short hours of our lives live on beyond themselves.

Natalie Clifford Barney
Art, Expression, Way
Natalie Clifford Barney, Anna Livia (1992). “A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney”, p.125, New Victoria Publishers

To be married is to be neither alone nor together.

Natalie Clifford Barney
Together, Married, Being Married
Natalie Clifford Barney, Anna Livia (1992). “A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney”, p.97, New Victoria Publishers

doubt seems the only purity for those who are too fervent to deny, and too lucid to affirm.

Natalie Clifford Barney
Doubt, Purity, Deny
Natalie Clifford Barney (1992). “Adventures of the Mind: The Memoirs of Natalie Clifford Barney”, p.98, NYU Press

We know all their gods; they ignore ours. What they call our sins are our gods, and what they call their gods, we name otherwise.

Natalie Clifford Barney
God, Names, Sin
"Gods". Adam International Review, No. 299, 1962.

A thought falls like a ripe fruit from the tree of idleness.

Natalie Clifford Barney
Fall, Tree, Fruit
Natalie Clifford Barney, Anna Livia (1992). “A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney”, p.119, New Victoria Publishers

Novels are longer than life.

Natalie Clifford Barney
Life, Literature, Novel
Natalie Clifford Barney, Anna Livia (1992). “A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney”, p.118, New Victoria Publishers

Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.

Natalie Clifford Barney
Years, Age, Youth
"Samples from Almost Illegible Notebooks". Adam International Review, No. 299, 1962.

Fashion: the search for a new absurdity.

Natalie Clifford Barney
Fashion, Absurdity
Natalie Clifford Barney, Anna Livia (1992). “A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney”, p.100, New Victoria Publishers

To think about and prepare for war is boring, boring for everyone. It's being locked in barracks.

Natalie Clifford Barney
War, Thinking, Boring

That parasite: the past.

Natalie Clifford Barney
Past, Parasites
Natalie Clifford Barney, Anna Livia (1992). “A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney”, p.129, New Victoria Publishers

Lovers should also have their days off.

Natalie Clifford Barney
Love, Days Off, Lovers

Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.

Natalie Clifford Barney
Men, Lazy Man, Literature

Eternity: what a waste of time.

Natalie Clifford Barney
Waste, Wasting Time, Eternity
Natalie Clifford Barney, Anna Livia (1992). “A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney”, p.115, New Victoria Publishers

What makes bad writers so annoying is their good passages.

Natalie Clifford Barney
Annoying, Passages
Natalie Clifford Barney, Anna Livia (1992). “A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney”, p.120, New Victoria Publishers

You May Also Like: