"This is an important book, the critic assumes,……" — Virginia Woolf
"This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room."
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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 Assumes Quotes
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Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.
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Traditional science assumes, for the most part, that an objective observer independent reality exists; the universe, stars, galaxies, sun, moon…
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It is the best of all games for me. It frequently escapes from the pattern of sport and assumes the…
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Prayer assumes the sovereignty of God. If God is not sovereign, we have no assurance that He is able to…
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The Society is based on that great bottom law of human right, that nothing but crime can forfeit liberty. That…
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The Pacific no longer represents menacing avenues of approach for a prospective invader. It assumes, instead, the friendly aspect of…
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There is no vice so simple but assumes some mark of virtue on his outward parts.
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English character and English freedom depend comparatively little on the form which the Constitution assumes at Westminster. A centralised democracy…
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Whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force.
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Some theists, observing that all 'effects' need a cause, assert that God is a cause but not an effect. But…
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Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to…
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If Islam despises Christianity, it has a thousandfold right to do so: Islam at least assumes that it is dealing…
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