If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
Quote by Virginia Woolf
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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
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Virginia Woolf Quotes
- Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
- For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?
- We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.
- The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.
- 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.
- It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
- We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.
- There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.
- If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?
- It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.
Best Quotes
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- The beauty, the poetry of the fear in their eyes. I didn't mind going to jail for, what, five, six hours? It was absolutely worth it.
- Today I can announce a raft of reforms that we estimate could save over 2.5 million police hours every year. That's the equivalent of more than 1,200 police officer posts. These reforms are a watershed moment in policing. They show that we really mean business in busting bureaucracy.
- For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity.
- It's not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix.
- But I was very, very lucky, and it was a wake up call as far as motorbikes are concerned. I never flirted with death on the bike, but now I'm totally convinced they're death machines.
- Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!
- Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language, and forthwith it is something entirely different.
- You're basically the sum of all the experiences you've ever had, and they're sort of shaken up in you and reproduced in the things you create, and that includes seeing movies.
- It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.