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Flower Quotes by Virginia Woolf
- Wine has a drastic, an astringent taste. I cannot help wincing as I drink. Ascent of flowers, radiance and heat, are distilled here to a…
- Ruin, weariness, death, perpetually death, stand grimly to confront the other presence of Elizabethan drama which is life: life compact of frigates, fir trees and…
- All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn, for it was she who earned them the right to speak…
- Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.
- It was odd, she thought, how if one was alone, one leant to inanimate things; trees, streams, flowers; felt they expressed one; felt they became…
- Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.
- O friendship, I too will press flowers between the pages of Shakespeare's sonnets!
- The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went. And what the poets said in rhyme, the young translated…
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- The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent… — Honore de Balzac
- The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener. — George Balanchine
- A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over. — Honore de Balzac
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- Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year. — Franklin P. Adams
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- For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb… — Edward Abbey
- I don't want to be stinky poo poo girl, I want to be happy flower child. — Drew Barrymore
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