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Them Quotes by Virginia Woolf
- To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.
- If only she could put them together, she felt, write them out in some sentence, then she would have got at the truth of things.
- 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…
- A strange thing has happened - while all the other arts were born naked, this, the youngest, has been born fully-clothed. It can say everything…
- He looked very old. He looked, James thought, getting his head now against the Lighthouse, now against the waste of waters running away into the…
- We read Charlotte Bronte not for exquisite observation of character, not for comedy, not for a philosophic view of life, but for her poetry. Probably…
- Venerable are letters, infinitely brave, forlorn, and lost. Life would split asunder without them. 'Come to tea, come to dinner, what's the truth of the…
- To admit authorities, however heavily furred and gowned, into our libraries and let them tell us how to read, what to read, what value to…
- She tapped on the window with her embossed hairbrush. They were too far off to hear. The drone of the trees was in their ears;…
- Old Madame du Deffand and her friends talked for fifty years without stopping. And of it all, what remains? Perhaps three witty sayings. So that…
- Publicity in women is detestable. Anonymity runs in their blood. The desire to be veiled still possesses them. They are not even now as concerned…
- Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.
- One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among…
- Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.
- I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
- There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them; we may make them take the mould…
- When the Day of Judgment dawns and people, great and small, come marching in to receive their heavenly rewards, the Almighty will gaze upon the…
- ...she took her hand and raised her brush. For a moment it stayed trembling in a painful but exciting ecstacy in the air. Where to…
- For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.
- ...so now, Mrs. Ramsay thought, she could return to that dream land, that unreal but fascinating place, the Manning's drawing-room at Marlow twenty years ago;…
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