Top 2 Quotes & Sayings by Cynthia Asquith

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English writer Cynthia Asquith.
Last updated on December 25, 2024.
Cynthia Asquith

Lady Cynthia Mary Evelyn Asquith was an English writer and socialite, known for her ghost stories and diaries. She also wrote novels, edited a number of anthologies, wrote for children and covered the British Royal family.

Oh why was I born for this time? Before one is thirty to know more dead than living people. — © Cynthia Asquith
Oh why was I born for this time? Before one is thirty to know more dead than living people.
I am beginning to rub my eyes at the prospect of peace. I think it will require more courage than anything that has gone before … One will have to look at long vistas again, instead of short ones, and one will at last fully recognise that the dead are not only dead for the duration of the war.
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