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Virginians were no more angels or philanthropists than people to the north or to the south of them. They were moved by their affections,…

— John Sergeant Wise

“I had heard of Virginia before only in passing, a "crazy ex" with whom things had not ended well. I was accustomed to this…

— Alana Massey

“Leonard Woolf’s endurance of Virginia’s famous frigidity is, we must suppose after the fact, altogether to his credit. Their honeymoon did not bring the…

— Elizabeth Hardwick

“Virginia and Vanessa were often thought scruffy. Vanessa rapidly decided that untidiness and dirt were infinitely preferable to being 'a Town Lady'; the writer…

— Alison Light

“West Virginia had the Hatfield and the McCoys. Shakespeare had the Capulets and the Montagues. Salvation had the Martins and the Sweets.”

— Avery Flynn

Growing up in colonial Virginia, if you know anything about that part of the country, there was a number of tensions there. Because of…

— Monty Williams

“They are kind of queer about music and books and scenery. Mother says it’s because their grandfather came from Virginia. She says Virginians set…

— Margaret Mitchell

“Well--you know how the Wilkes are. They are kind of queer about music and books and scenery. Mother says it's because their grandfather came…

— Margaret Mitchell

When I was growing up in Virginia, the Civil War was presented to me as glorious with dramatic courage and military honor. Later, I…

— Drew Gilpin Faust

“Welcome to West Virginia, the land of lost models.”

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

“I suppose because we have no ruins and no curiosities,” said Virginia satirically.”

— Oscar Wilde

Virginia was in fact a landowning aristocracy, without nobility or merchant class, or any considerable small peasant farming class; and the other Southern colonies,…

— Carl L. Becker