Facts about Katherine Mansfield

Occup.	Author
From	New Zealand
Born	October 14, 1888
Died	January 9, 1923
Aged	34 years

Summary

Katherine Mansfield was a famous Author from New Zealand, who lived between October 14, 1888 and January 9, 1923. He/she became only 34 years old.

Zodiac:

He/she is born under the zodiac libra, who is known for Balance, Justice, Truth, Beauty, Perfection. Our collection contains 22 quotes who is written / told by Katherine, under the main topic Friendship.

Related authors: Virginia Woolf (Author)

22 Famous quotes by Katherine Mansfield

"When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves"

Katherine Mansfield

"The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books"

Katherine Mansfield

"It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves"

Katherine Mansfield

"Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change"

Katherine Mansfield

"Whenever I prepare for a journey I prepare as though for death. Should I never return, all is in order"

Katherine Mansfield

"Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness"

Katherine Mansfield

"If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools"

Katherine Mansfield

"Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different"

Katherine Mansfield

"This is not a letter but my arms around you for a brief moment"

Katherine Mansfield

"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

"It's a terrible thing to be alone - yes it is - it is - but don't lower your mask until you have another mask prepared beneath - as terrible as you like - but a mask"

Katherine Mansfield

"Some couples go over their budgets very carefully every month. Others just go over them"

Katherine Mansfield

"I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming"

Katherine Mansfield

"I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing"

Katherine Mansfield

"Make it a rule of 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

"Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel"

Katherine Mansfield

"I love the rain. I want the feeling of it on my face"

Katherine Mansfield

"What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself, in the face of difficulties"

Katherine Mansfield

"Looking back, I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all"

Katherine Mansfield

"I'm a writer first and a woman after"

Katherine Mansfield

"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

"I want to be all that I am capable of becoming"

Katherine Mansfield