Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.
Quote by Virginia Woolf
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Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.
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Virginia Woolf Quotes
- The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.
- The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
- 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.
- I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.
- If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
- It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.
- Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.
- Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
- The connection between dress and war is not far to seek your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.
- 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.
Best Quotes
- I have more freedom when I write fiction, but my memoirs have had a much stronger impact on my readers. Somehow the 'message,' even if I am not even aware that there is one, is conveyed better in this form.
- Religion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion easier for people, religion must be able to alter its forms in relation to the consciousness of modern man.
- I love making movies and hope to write my own screenplay someday and do some producing and be behind-the-scenes as well.
- At the end of the day, sleep is a barometer of your emotional health. And so if you're not in the right place where you need to be, then you're going to have voices keeping you up at night because you have to work through those issues.
- Some of the companies we helped start are names you know. An office supply company called Staples - where I'm pleased to see the Obama campaign has been shopping The Sports Authority, which became a favorite of my sons. We started an early childhood learning center called Bright Horizons that First Lady Michelle Obama rightly praised.
- When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.
- Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is 'The Book of British Birds,' and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology.
- Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.
- I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table.
- Back in the East you can't do much without the right papers, but with the right papers you can do anything The believe in papers. Papers are power.