"Moments like this are buds on the tree……" — Virginia Woolf
"Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are."
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642 Quotes by Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf has 642 quotes on this site.
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To enjoy freedom ... we have of course to control ourselves. We must not squander our powers, helplessly and ignorantly,…
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If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be…
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Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!
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Tom's great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An inhibited, nerve-drawn; dropped face - as if hung…
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I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.
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Does housekeeping interest you at all? I think it really ought to be just as good as writing and I…
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If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of utmost…
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King old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always to to…
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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet…
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To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.
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Life for both sexes is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. More than anything... it calls for confidence in oneself...And how…
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The history of most women is hidden either by silence, or by flourishes and ornaments that amount to silence.
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More Bud Quotes
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Once we hit forty, women only have about four taste buds left: one for vodka, one for wine, one for…
— Gina Barreca
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Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of…
— John Quincy Adams
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Sometimes sushi is just superb, and other times there's nothing like a great big steak. It depends where your taste…
— Francesca Annis
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Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May.
— William Shakespeare
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Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the…
— Alex Faickney Osborn
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This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet
— William Shakespeare
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Sweet, can I sing you the song of your kisses? How soft is this one, how subtle this is, How…
— Arthur Symons
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It's the relationships between people that are more important than the sort of far away fantasies of what the good…
— Mira Sorvino
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Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
— Dorothy Parker
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Slow buds the pink dawn like a rose From out night's gray and cloudy sheath; Softly and still it grows…
— Sarah Chauncey Woolsey
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Still more labyrinthine buds the rose.
— Robert Browning
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[Golfers] are a special kind of moral relist who nips the normal romantic and idealstic yearnings in the bud by…
— Alistair Cooke
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