Author of quotes: Virginia Woolf. Page 1

Will fame last long? Glory can last two thousand years. But what is two thousand years? If you look from the mountain peak to the deserts of centuries? These stones that you kick with your foot are more durable than Shakespeare.

Whether you like it or not, there is an ancient, most obvious difference between two classes of people: on the one hand, tireless, over-stubborn, striding in order through the entire alphabet and consolidating it from beginning to end, and on the other, gifted, inspired, swallowing all the letters at once - geniuses.

The qualities in which the ship's crew would survive in the raging sea on six crackers and a flask of water are endurance, prudence, justice, devotion, dexterity.

Her simplicity always penetrated into what they got confused about, and so clever people were deceived, straightforwardness taught with a stone, like a bird, to rush to the target, soar and soar and dive straight into the truth - and this captures; it supports and gives hope - deceitful, perhaps.

It's amazing how a man of his intellect can be so dependent on other people's praise?

Charles Tansley - that's what's unbearable - until he somehow distorts, doesn't bring you down, doesn't belittle you, doesn't piss you off with this nasty manner of knocking the spirit out of everything - he won't stop. And in the art gallery he will ask how you like his tie.

How to judge people, how to regard them? How to put everything on the shelves and decide - I like one, do not like the other? And what do these words mean in the end?

Outwardly, she is far from the seductive, pink Miss Doyle, but she has a head on her shoulders, and this, in his opinion, is much more valuable.

What you feel is impossible to put into words.

Life is a serious thing; the facts are inexorable; and the path to that promised land, where the most radiant dreams go out and fragile boats perish in the darkness, this path first of all requires courage, love of truth, endurance.

The most important thing, only everyone is afraid to say it out loud, is that happiness is cheaper than a steamed turnip. It can also be obtained for free.

The soul is by nature a loner, a widow bird; a bird nestled aloof and high on an elm tree.

If you take a pencil and write down his speech verbatim - and in one evening he slandered a whole novel - anyone, having mastered all this, would no doubt come to the conclusion that. that the poor fellow was positively insane. Meanwhile, quite the contrary, Mr. Pritchard was a respectable civil servant and Commander of the Order of the Bath.

How incomprehensible is what is happening to us, and how few words we have for all these amazing sensations, this change of pain and pleasure.