"The mind is the most capricious of insects……" — Virginia Woolf
"The mind is the most capricious of insects — flitting, fluttering."
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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 Capricious Quotes
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I believe that an orderly universe, one indifferent to human preoccupations, in which everything has an explanation even if we…
— Richard Dawkins
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There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.
— William Hazlitt
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Many a sober Christian would rather admit that a wafer is God than that God is a cruel and capricious…
— Edward Gibbon
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Some jobs are worse than actual wives. Ad agency vs. Matrimony, for instance: Even the most capricious and demanding spouse…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of…
— Barbara Tuchman
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I do not understand the capricious lewdness of the sleeping mind.
— John Cheever
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Imposition of the death penalty is arbitrary and capricious. Decision of who will live and who will die for his…
— Gerald Heaney
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Our law very often reminds one of those outskirts of cities where you cannot for a long time tell how…
— Walter Bagehot
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Not to be offensive, not to be capricious, not to be arbitrary, not to be neurotic, not to be an…
— William Hurt
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The essence of tyranny is not iron law. It is capricious law.
— Christopher Hitchens
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Photography is without mercy--though it's nonsense to say it does not lie. Rather, it lies in a particular, capricious way…
— Nick Harkaway
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