Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends.
Quote by Virginia Woolf
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Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends.
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Virginia Woolf Quotes
- Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.
- 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?
- 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?
- 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.
- The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.
- 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.
- Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
- The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.
- 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.
Best Quotes
- Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat.
- A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it's less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society.
- I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me.
- A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
- I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.
- Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.
- Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.
- When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
- Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.