China Quote by Virginia Woolf

“But china is seldom thrown from a great height; it is one of the rarest of human actions. You have to find in conjunction a very high house, and a woman of such reckless impulse and passionate prejudice that she flings her jar or pot straight from the window without thought of who is below.” quote by Virginia Woolf — Download Open image

““But china is seldom thrown from a great height; it is one of the rarest of human actions. You have to find in conjunction a very high house, and a woman of such reckless impulse and passionate prejudice that she flings her jar or pot straight from the window without thought of who is below.””

Virginia Woolf

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (3 ratings)

China Human-action Humour

More by Virginia Woolf

Fatigue is the safest sleeping draught.

Virginia Woolf

Image

“The train slows and lengthens, as we approach London, the centre, and my heart draws out too, in fear, in exaltation. I am about to meet--what? What extraordinary adventure awaits me, among these mail vans, these porters, these swarms of people calling taxis? I feel insignificant, lost, but exultant. With a soft shock we stop. I will let the others…

Virginia Woolf

“Across the broad continent of a woman's life falls the shadow of a sword. On one side all is correct, definite, orderly; the paths are straight, the trees regular, the sun shaded; escorted by gentlemen, protected by policemen, wedded and buried by clergymen, she has only to walk demurely from cradle to grave and no one will touch a hair…

Virginia Woolf

“Other worshipful objects were content with worship; men, women, God, all let one kneel prostrate; but this form, were it only the shape of…

Virginia Woolf

Image

Why does Samuel Butler say, 'Wise men never say what they think of women'? Wise men never say anything else apparently.

Virginia Woolf

Image

“Sometimes he woke with a brain like lead; at others it was as if a thousand wax tapers were alight and people were throwing…

Virginia Woolf

Image

The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman. It is only when we know what were the conditions of the average woman's life - the number of children, whether she had money of her own, if she had a room to herself, whether she had help bringing up her family, if she had servants, whether part of the housework was…

Virginia Woolf

A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.

Virginia Woolf

Image

Love ought to stop on both sides, don’t you think, simultaneously?’ He spoke without any stress on the words, so as not to wake…

Virginia Woolf

Image

“It is so vast an alleviation to be able to point for another to look at. And then not to talk. To follow the…

Virginia Woolf

Image

“What a vast fertility of pleasure books hold for me! (...) I think I could happily live here & read forever.”

Virginia Woolf

Image

“what a luxury to be alone once more,”

Virginia Woolf

Image

Explore all 1,872 Virginia Woolf quotes

More China quotes

I don't want to go into space because of war. I think we would if it was triggered. If China said they want to…

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Image

[The Dalai Lama] told me some years ago, "I've made every concession to China, and I've been as open and tolerant as I could, and still things get worse in Tibet." If you look at it from one point of view, as he himself says, his monastic position of forbearance and nonviolence hasn't reaped any benefits. And yet, he's thinking…

Pico Iyer

One of the things the United States does well is building coalitions. What the U.S. knows is that if you don't have a coalition…

Shimon Peres

Image

Personally, I prefer contemporary films, but the market calls for more period choices, especially since China opened up a cinema market in Hong Kong.…

Donnie Yen

Image

In China, people are moving from bigger cars to small hatches, and interestingly, the Indian market is graduating to bigger cars and sedans. I…

Winfried Vahland

Image

Broken china lasts longer than unbroken.

Jules Renard

Image

Language is so specific to art, all the way to the past in China. Previously, people were not allowed to include various regional dialects…

Jia Zhangke

Image

India may be overtaking China as the world's most polluted country. Even now, which country is worse depends on the day.

Steve Inskeep

Image

If China someday gains a more fair, just, and accountable system of government, it will be due to the hard work and efforts of…

Rebecca MacKinnon

Image

Put plainly, China seems determined to steal its way up the economic ladder, at our expense.

Christopher A. Wray

Image

We have reiterated on many occasions that China wishes to establish and develop long-term, good-neighbourly and friendly relations with all countries in south Asia.

Li Peng