The connection between dress and war is not far to seek your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.
Quote by Virginia Woolf
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The connection between dress and war is not far to seek your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.
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Virginia Woolf Quotes
- You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
- Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
- This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.
- Masterpieces are not single and solitary births they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.
- 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.
- Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends.
- If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
- When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.
- 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?
- 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.
Best Quotes
- What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!
- We live in a society obsessed with public opinion. But leadership has never been about popularity.
- The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.
- A man is born alone and dies alone and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.
- With 'Bright Star' and with 'The Piano,' too, I felt a kind of sadness about it being in such a different era, because of my lack of experience with the era. And one of the ways I'd get over it is to remind myself that every film, even if it's contemporary, creates its own world.
- Don't knock the weather nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.
- There's no abiding success without commitment.
- Accuse not nature, she hath done her part Do thou but thine, and be not diffident Of wisdom, she deserts thee not, if thou Dismiss not her, when most thou needest her nigh, By attributing overmuch to thingsLess excellent, as thou thyself perceivest.
- Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble in a statue the marble must be like flesh.
- All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.