Sybille Bedford Quotes

1911–2006 England

Sybille Bedford, OBE (née Sybille Aleid Elsa von Schoenebeck; 16 March 1911 – 17 February 2006) was a German-born, English novelist, memoirist, and journalist. Her journalism deals with travel, food and wine, and dramatic courtroom trials.

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The Indians were delighted to accept a new god, but reluctant to relinquish many of the old ones.

The Sudden View (1953)

At half past ten, Don Otavio issues from the house, splendid like the moon, all in white silk, his silvery hair brushed upwards, a Charvet tie over his holy shirt, bearing nothing.

A Visit to Don Otavio: A Traveller's Tale from Mexico (1960)

The descendants of the Aztecs sleeping on the pavements of Mexico City are paupers. We speak of poverty as being abject, extreme, dire, genteel; crippling, unmitigated, relative. It can be all of these, but it is always the last.

The Sudden View (1953)

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