Quotes by Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth

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How fortunate we were who still had hope I did not then realise; I could not know how soon the time would come when we s — Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth
Only, I felt, by some such attempt to write history in terms of personal life could I rescue something that might be of — Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth
When the sound of victorious guns burst over London at 11 a.m. on November 11th, 1918, the men and women who looked incr — Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth
It is, I think, this glamour, this magic, this incomparable keying up of the spirit in a time of mortal conflict, which — Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth
When the Great War broke out, it came to me not as a superlative tragedy, but as an interruption of the most exasperatin — Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth
I found it not inappropriate that the years of frustration and grief and loss, of work and conflict and painful resurrec — Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth
I joined the Pass Mods. class and studied the cyropaedia and Livy's Wars with a resentful feeling that there was quite e — Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth
Tired as I was of conflict, I felt that I must not shrink from the fight, nor abandon in cowardice the attempt to prove, — Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth
That's the worst of sorrow . . . it's always a vicious circle. It makes one tense and hard and disagreeable, and this me — Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth
People talked so foolishly, I thought, about the ennobling effects of suffering. No doubt the philosophy that tells you — Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth
I am less blindly confident than I once was, for I have been learning a truer estimate of myself, my failings and limita — Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth
Why, I wondered, do people who at one time or another have all been young themselves, who ought therefore to know better — Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth
When I was a girl . . . I imagined that life was individual, one's own affair; that the events happening in the world ou — Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth