One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
Quote by Virginia Woolf
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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
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Virginia Woolf Quotes
- 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.
- If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? - not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?
- Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.
- It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
- 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?
- I read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well in it.
- Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say.
- Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.
- It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.
- Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
Best Quotes
- If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.
- I get mad. I get sad. I have all those emotions. But I just like to keep them to myself. I don't think my fans need to be bothered with if I'm mad or sad about something. I should just be concerned that they are keeping up with my music or I'm making them happy with my show.
- I'm not a power person. I like everyone to be on an equal footing.
- Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
- Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
- A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
- Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
- For most of my life I let women do the driving and was happy to let them.
- But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.
- Great men are not born, they are made, Your greatness lies in your ability to make a step further than you think you can.