Chiefs Quote by Virginia Woolf Download Open image “The chief glory of a woman is not to be talked of, said Pericles, himself a much-talked-of-man.” — Virginia Woolf ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Chiefs Feminist Glory Inspirational Men Motivational Said
Your great glory is not to be inferior to what you have been given by nature, and the greatest glory of a woman is… — Pericles Copy Share Image
A woman's greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill. — Pericles Copy Share Image
A woman should be seen by the luminosity of her grace and not heard shooting her mouth away about praising herself which is so… — Rekha Copy Share Image
Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A man is a great thing upon the earth and through eternity; but every jot of the greatness of man is unfolded out of… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“I am not trying to be méchant when I talk about women. I respect women—very much—for their inside life, which is not like the… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
The glory of man is knowledge, but the glory of woman is to renounce knowledge. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
“He has never known a woman so free from conceit, vanity, ambition, pretense. He has never known a woman so willing to show the… — Elin Hilderbrand Copy Share Image
I find it hard to believe that a lady like...’ Pertellis hesitated, and coughed. ‘There is something elevated in the female spirit that will… — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
“Nothing is so precious to a woman's heart as the glory and excellence of him she loves” — Mary Shelley Copy Share 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… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“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… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Why does Samuel Butler say, 'Wise men never say what they think of women'? Wise men never say anything else apparently. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share 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 Copy Share 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 -… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share 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 Copy Share 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 Copy Share Image
“What a vast fertility of pleasure books hold for me! (...) I think I could happily live here & read forever.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
I have no hesitation in saying that although the American woman never leaves her domestic sphere and is in some respects very dependent within… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be a fireman, a cop, an Indian chief, a doctor, a lawyer. I always wanted to be all these things,… — Morgan Freeman Copy Share Image
The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught. — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Las Vegas is a resort whose two chief sources of income are seven and eleven. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
There is no one force, no group, and no class that is the preserver of liberty. Liberty is preserved by those who are against… — James Burnham Copy Share Image
Remember chief of staff Rahm Emanuel's callous enjoinder 'you never want a serious crisis to go to waste'? This White House is a serious… — Bob Tyrrell Copy Share Image
There is a wealth of unexpressed love in the world. It is one of the chief causes of sorrow evoked by death: what might… — Arthur Hopkins Copy Share Image
The chief beneficiary of life insurance policies for young, single people is the life insurance agent. — Wes Smith Copy Share Image
Most of my writer friends are women, and they're all extremely talented, so of course I think the state of contemporary fiction for women… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
No commander in chief would ever say, 'I'm not going to listen to the guys on the ground. — Claire McCaskill Copy Share Image