Vita Sackville West

Vita Sackville West (1892 - 1962), original name Victoria Mary or Lady Nicolson, was an English author, novelist, poet, journalist and diarist. She was also a garden designer. She published more than a dozen collections of poetry and 13 novels during her lifetime.

Wisdom & Quotes

• Ambition, old as mankind, the immemorial weakness of the strong.

- No Signposts in the Sea

• Summer makes a silence after springs.

- The Land

• Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong Kong.

- Passenger to Teheran

George Aiken