"to teach without zest is a crime." — Virginia Woolf
"to teach without zest is a crime."
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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 Crime Quotes
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one of 2,562 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite…
— Hannah Arendt
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Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of…
— Hannah Arendt
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No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the…
— Hannah Arendt
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Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Poverty is the mother of crime.
— Marcus Aurelius
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The book that convinced me I wanted to be a writer was 'Crime and Punishment'. I put the thing down…
— Paul Auster
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Drug prohibition has caused gang warfare and other violent crimes by raising the prices of drugs so much that vicious…
— Michael Badnarik
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Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness.
— Mikhail Bakunin
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Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful…
— Johnny Ball
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When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us…
— Honore de Balzac
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Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.
— Honore de Balzac
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Most crime fiction, no matter how 'hard-boiled' or bloodily forensic, is essentially sentimental, for most crime writers are disappointed romantics.
— John Banville
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