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Violet Trefusis

  • You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination ...

    • Violet Trefusis,
    • in Mitchell A. Leaska, ed., Violet to Vita: The Letters of Violet Trefusis to Vita Sackville-West 1910-1921 ()
  • Be wicked, be brave, be drunk, be reckless, be dissolute, be despotic, be an anarchist, be a religious fanatic, be a suffragette, be anything you like — but for pity's sake be it to the top of your bent.

    • Violet Trefusis,
    • in Mitchell A. Leaska, ed., Violet to Vita: The Letters of Violet Trefusis to Vita Sackville-West 1910-1921 ()

Violet Trefusis, English writer

(1894 - 1972)

Full name: Violet Keppel Trefusis.