Quotes by Natalie Clifford Barney

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.
– Natalie Clifford Barney
Eternity - waste of time.
– Natalie Clifford Barney
How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.
– Natalie Clifford Barney
If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.
– Natalie Clifford Barney
Novels are longer than life.
– Natalie Clifford Barney
The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.
– Natalie Clifford Barney
Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.
– Natalie Clifford Barney
To be one's own master is to be the slave of self.
– Natalie Clifford Barney
We know all their gods; they ignore ours. What they call our sins are our gods, and what they call their gods, we name otherwise.
– Natalie Clifford Barney
When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks.
– Natalie Clifford Barney
Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?
– Natalie Clifford Barney
With renunciation life begins.
– Natalie Clifford Barney
Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones.
– Natalie Clifford Barney