« All Twigs Quotes
·
Virginia Woolf's Page
Twigs Quotes by Virginia Woolf
1 Twigs quote by Virginia Woolf
More Quotes by Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf has 653 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
-
To enjoy freedom ... we have of course to control ourselves. We must not squander our powers, helplessly and ignorantly, squirting half…
-
If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, I've…
-
Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!
-
Tom's great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An inhibited, nerve-drawn; dropped face - as if hung on a…
-
I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.
-
Does housekeeping interest you at all? I think it really ought to be just as good as writing and I never see…
-
If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of utmost importance; very…
-
King old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always to to a good…
-
It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what…
-
To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.
-
Life for both sexes is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. More than anything... it calls for confidence in oneself...And how can we…
-
The history of most women is hidden either by silence, or by flourishes and ornaments that amount to silence.
See all 653 quotes by Virginia Woolf »
More Twigs Quotes
Popular Twigs quotes from across the collection:
-
The one red leaf, the last of its clan, That dances as often as dance it can, Hanging so light, and hanging…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
-
This single Stick, which you now behold ingloriously lying in that neglected Corner, I once knew in a flourishing State in a…
— Jonathan Swift
-
Acting on even a twig of faith allows God to grow it.
— Henry B. Eyring
-
O frost bitten blossoms, That are unfolding your wings From out the envious black branches. Bloom quickly and make much of the…
— William Carlos Williams
-
And the poorest twig on the elm-tree was ridged inch deep with pearl.
— James Russell Lowell
-
On my last day of shooting, I'd be happy to say 'Cut, it's a wrap' and fall off the twig.
— Richard Attenborough
-
There are patterns in everything, in the whole of Nature, from the way the stars turn in the heavens to the whorl…
— Celia Rees
-
I do not want to die... until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was…
— Kathe Kollwitz
-
Men have learned to shoot without missing their mark and I have learned to fly without perching on a twig.
— Chinua Achebe
-
Rain-diamonds, this winter morning, embellish the tangle of unpruned pear-tree twigs; each solitaire, placed, it appears, with considered judgement, bears the light…
— Denise Levertov
-
The seed of a tree has the nature of a branch or twig or bud. It is a part of the tree,…
— Isaac Newton
-
Personal, spiritual symmetry emerges only from the shaping of prolonged obedience. Twigs are bent, not snapped into shape.
— Neal A. Maxwell
See all Twigs Quotes »
Browse Virginia Woolf Quotes by Category