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Best Men Quotes by Virginia Woolf
- 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 prefer men to cauliflowers
- If we face the fact, for it is a fact, that there is no arm to cling to, but that we go alone and that…
- I need not hate any man; he cannot hurt me. I need not flatter any man; he has nothing to give me.
- In the 18th century we knew how everything was done, but here I rise through the air, I listen to voices in America, I see…
- It would be a thousand pities if women wrote like men, or lived like men, or looked like men, for if two sexes are quite…
- for it was not knowledge but unity that she desired, not inscriptions on tablets, nothing that could be written in any language known to men,…
- 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…
- If Shakespeare had never existed, he asked, would the world have differed much from what it is today? Does the progress of civilization depend upon…
- Why does Samuel Butler say, 'Wise men never say what they think of women'? Wise men never say anything else apparently.
- As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.
- Have you any notion how many books are written about women in the course of one year? Have you any notion how many are written…
- 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…
- I detest the masculine point of view. I am bored by his heroism, virtue, and honour. I think the best these men can do is…
- History is too much about wars; biography too much about great men.
- It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have…
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- 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
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle