Dame Rebecca West Browse All Authors Top 3 quotes by Dame Rebecca West Before a war, military science seems a real science, like astronomy. After a war it seems more like astrology. Dame Rebecca West If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on its headstone might well be: "It seemed a good idea at the time." Dame Rebecca West Those who foresee the future and recognize it as tragic are often seized by a madness which forces them to commit the very acts which made it certain that what they dread shall happen. Dame Rebecca West
