A Visit to Don Otavio Quotes

“Guillermo was lonely and serviceable and always rushed in to do the things one wanted in a way one did not want them done.”
― Sybille Bedford, A Visit to Don Otavio

“Dominion over his environment was supposed to be a hallmark of man. Now, that dominion is almost wholly vicarious, derived from the past ingenuity of others. In urban and industrial communities it is never direct, physical or spontaneous. Our implements are at twelve removes and we may all live to live inside so many Thermos flasks. It may be well to remember how to use a pair of sticks and a stone.”
― Sybille Bedford, A Visit to Don Otavio

“In Europe where human relations like clothes are supposed to last, one’s got to be wearable. In France one has to be interesting, in Italy pleasant, in England one has to fit.”
― Sybille Bedford, A Visit to Don Otavio

“I have not the slightest desire to see the wonders of nature', said E.
'Of course not my dear. But what else can we do?”
― Sybille Bedford, A Visit to Don Otavio