109 Quotations by Virginia Woolf
- 21. Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.
- 22. Humor is the first gift to perish in a foreign language.
- 23. Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
- 24. I am to be broken. I am to be derided all my life. I am to be cast up and down among these men and w ...
- 25. I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
- 26. I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.
- 27. I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locke ...
- 28. I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again -- as I always am when I ...
- 29. I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
- 30. If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure -- the relationship so secret and private compa ...
- 31. If we didn't live adventurously, plucking the wild goat by the beard and trembling over precipices, ...
- 32. If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge, are we not forcing her to think not about ...
- 33. If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
- 34. If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or "our" country, let it be understood soberly and ration ...
- 35. Inevitably we look upon society, so kind to you, so harsh to us, as an ill-fitting form that distort ...
- 36. It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handlin ...
- 37. It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.
- 38. It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.
- 39. It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
- 40. It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entir ...
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