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Man Quotes by Virginia Woolf
- If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of utmost importance; very various; heroic and…
- King old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always to to a good man, they say.
- When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or even a very…
- The chief glory of a woman is not to be talked of, said Pericles, himself a much-talked-of-man.
- Biography is to give a man some kind of shape after his death.
- It is probable that both in life and in art the values of a woman are not the values of a man.
- 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…
- Some collaboration has to take place in the mind between the woman and the man before the art of creation can be accomplished. Some marriage…
- Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
- The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped…
- It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.
- If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? -…
- There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind…
- Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in…
- A learned man is a sedentary, concentrated solitary enthusiast, who searches through books to discover some particular grain of truth upon which he has set…
- I need not hate any man; he cannot hurt me. I need not flatter any man; he has nothing to give me.
- Does Nature supplement what man advanced? Or does she complete what he began?
- So that is marriage, Lily thought, a man and a woman looking at a girl throwing a ball
- No passion is stronger in the breast of a man than the desire to make others believe as he believes. Nothing so cuts at the…
- madam," the man cried, leaping to the ground, "you're hurt!" "I'm dead, sir!" she replied. A few minutes later, they became engaged.
- While fame impedes and constricts, obscurity wraps about a man like a mist; obscurity is dark, ample, and free; obscurity lets the mind take its…
- As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.
- She had read a wonderful play about a man who scratched on the wall of his cell and she had felt that was true of…
- Tell me", he wanted to say, "everything in the whole world" - for he had the wildest, most absurd, extravagant ideas about poets and poetry…
- And in me too the wave rises. It swells; it arches its back. I am aware once more of a new desire, something rising beneath…
More Man Quotes
- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. — Aristotle
- Hope is the dream of a waking man. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle