Top 6 Quotes by Violet Trefusis

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

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.

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

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

Violet Trefusis

Museums

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

Violet Trefusis

Thinking, Indifference, Genuine

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