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Violet Trefusis
Author profile
born
in The United Kingdom
June 06, 1894
died
February 29, 1972
gender
female
genre
About this author
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Hunt the Slipper
— published 1937 — 2 editions |
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Pirates at Play
— published 1950 |
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Broderie Anglaise
— published 1935 — 5 editions |
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Don't Look Round
— 2 editions |
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Echo
— 2 editions |
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Memoirs of an Armchair
by Violet Trefusis, Philippe Jullian — published 1960 |
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Violet to Vita: 2the Letters of Violet Trefusis to Vita Sackville-West, 1910-1921
by John Phillips , Violet Trefusis, Mitchell Alexander Leaska — 5 editions |
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Flibustiers
— published 1998 |
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“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.
-to Vita Sackville-West, October 25, 1918”
― Violet Trefusis
-to Vita Sackville-West, October 25, 1918”
― Violet Trefusis
“Do you think that love has to be requited to be genuine? On the contrary, it thrives on indifference.”
― Violet Trefusis, Pirates at Play
― Violet Trefusis, Pirates at Play
“He loved the interminable winter nights, when the dissatisfied wind mewed through the keyhole, and gusts of acrid smoke were driven down through the chimney; the imperfect silence when you awoke, as of a conversation hastily lulled, objects being hastily replaced. ‘Blow, blow thou winter wind, thou art not so unkind as man’s ingratitude.’ Why was it that he felt so perfectly attuned to winter, to its fatalistic expectation of the worst, then, when the worst came, its rustic heroisms and shouldering of burdens, improvised ingeniousness, constructive despair?”
― Violet Trefusis, Pirates at Play
― Violet Trefusis, Pirates at Play
