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Figures Quotes by Virginia Woolf
- Henry James seems most entirely in his element, doing that is to say what everything favors his doing, when it is a question of recollection.…
- For such will be our ruin if you, in the immensity of your public abstractions, forget the private figure, or if we in the intensity…
- The grey nurse resumed her knitting as Peter Walsh, on the hot seat beside her, began snoring. In her grey dress, moving her hands indefatigably…
- It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple; one must be woman-manly or man-womanly. It is fatal for a woman to…
- Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
- Suppose the looking glass smashes, the image disappears, and the romantic figure with the green of forest depths all about it is there no longer,…
More Figures Quotes
- We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on… — Aristotle
- Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as… — Henry David Thoreau
- My dad used to draw these great cartoon figures. His dream was being a cartoonist, but he never achieved it, and it… — Kathryn Bigelow
- Thou hast no figures nor no fantasies Which busy care draws in the brains of men; Therefore thou sleep'st so sound. — William Shakespeare
- It is vital that there is a narrator figure whom people believe. That's why I never do commercials. If I started saying… — David Attenborough
- I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don't think… — Kevin Bacon
- I'm a woman who has gone through many heartaches, enough to dedicate my whole life to trying to figure them out. — Erykah Badu
- We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most… — Philip James Bailey