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Virginia Woolf has 653 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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To enjoy freedom ... we have of course to control ourselves. We must not squander our powers, helplessly and ignorantly, squirting half…
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If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, I've…
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Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!
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Tom's great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An inhibited, nerve-drawn; dropped face - as if hung on a…
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I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.
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Does housekeeping interest you at all? I think it really ought to be just as good as writing and I never see…
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If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of utmost importance; very…
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King old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always to to a good…
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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what…
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To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.
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Life for both sexes is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. More than anything... it calls for confidence in oneself...And how can we…
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The history of most women is hidden either by silence, or by flourishes and ornaments that amount to silence.
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Laurels grow in the Bay of Biscay, I hope a bed of them may be found in the Mediterranean.
— Horatio Nelson
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There are no green thumbs or black thumbs. There are only gardeners and non-gardeners. Gardeners are the ones who ruin after ruin…
— Henry Mitchell
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Let war yield to peace, laurels to paeans.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Our cheer goes back to them, the valiant dead! Laurels and roses on their graves to-day, lilies and laurels over them we…
— Richard Hovey
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Cover them over with beautiful flowers, Deck them with garlands, those brothers of ours, Lying so silent by night and by day…
— Will Carleton
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The half-hour before dinner has always been considered as the great ordeal through which the mistress, in giving a dinner-party, will either…
— Isabella Beeton
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I think the fault is more with historicists who have stubbornly failed to develop a good theory of historicity. By simply resting…
— Earl Doherty
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There are no laurels in life, just new challenges.
— Katharine Hepburn
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Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in…
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.
— Oscar Wilde
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Even though I've had the body of work I've had, and the success I've had, I do not rest on my laurels…
— Jonathan Rhys Meyers
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But at the same time you can't assume that making a difference 20 years ago is going to allow you to sort…
— Angela Davis
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