"These moments of escape are not to be……" — Virginia Woolf
"These moments of escape are not to be despised. They come too seldom."
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Virginia Woolf
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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 Despised Quotes
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one of 206 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal…
— Charles Baudelaire
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp…
— Robert Burns
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We avenge intellect when we dupe a fool, and it is a victory not to be despised for a fool…
— Giacomo Casanova
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Unless a man gives himself entirely to the Cross, in a spirit of humility and self-abasement; unless he casts himself…
— Mark the Evangelist
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Among other evils which being unarmed brings you, it causes you to be despised.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Uncles and aunts, and cousins, are all very well, and fathers and mothers are not to be despised; but a…
— Fanny Fern
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That a Jew is despised or persecuted is bad for him, of course-but far worse for the Christian who does…
— Phyllis Bottome
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I am yet too young to understand that God is any respecter of persons. I believe that to have interfered…
— John Brown
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Seldom or never is a poor man honored by the world; however worthy of honor he may be, he is…
— Teresa of Avila
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No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
— Seneca the Younger
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Age is rarely despised but when it is, contemptible.
— Samuel Johnson
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