Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.
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.
Virginia Woolf
The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.
The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.
Thus when I come to shape here at this table between my hands the story of my life and set it before you as a complete thing, I have to recall things gone far, gone deep, sunk into this life or that and become part of it; dreams, too, things surrounding me, and the inmates, those old half-articulate ghosts who keep up their hauntings by day and night... shadows of people one might have been; unborn selves.
What I like, or one of the things I like, about motoring is the sense it gives one of lighting accidentally, like a voyager who touches another planet with the tip of his toe, upon scenes which would have gone on, have always gone on, will go on, unrecorded, save for this chance glimpse. Then it seems to me I am allowed to see the heart of the world uncovered for a moment.
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.
When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.
Most of a modest woman's life was spent, after all, in denying what, in one day at least of every year, was made obvious.
To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.
For such will be our ruin if you, in the immensity of your public abstractions, forget the private figure, or if we in the intensity of our private emotions forget the public world. Both houses will be ruined, the public and the private, the material and the spiritual, for they are inseparably connected.
Publicity in women is detestable. Anonymity runs in their blood. The desire to be veiled still possesses them. They are not even now as concerned about the health of their fame as men are, and, speaking generally, will pass a tombstone or a signpost without feeling an irresistible desire to cut their names on it.
One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats --and one always secretes too much jelly.
What is meant by reality? It would seem to be something very erratic, very undependable -- now to be found in a dusty road, now in a scrap of newspaper in the street, now a daffodil in the sun. It lights up a group in a room and stamps some casual saying
To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer.
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.
Inevitably we look upon society, so kind to you, so harsh to us, as an ill-fitting form that distorts the truth; deforms the mind; fetters the will.
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.
Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders.
Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?
That great Cathedral space which was childhood.
The first duty of a lecturer is to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks and keep on the mantelpiece forever.
We all indulge in the strange, pleasant process called thinking, but when it comes to saying, even to someone opposite, what we think, then how little we are able to convey! The phantom is through the mind and out of the window before we can lay salt on
Humor is the first gift to perish in a foreign language.
Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.
The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.
Young women... you are, in my opinion, disgracefully ignorant. You have never made a discovery of any sort of importance. You have never shaken an empire or led an army into battle. The plays by Shakespeare are not by you, and you have never introduced a barbarous race to the blessings of civilization. What is your excuse?
As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
The word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping.
A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.
David Summers
Nagging is the repetition of unpalatable truths.
Edith Summerskill
The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man.
Charles Sumner
The age of chivalry has gone; the age of humanity has come.
I have never known a man who was sensual in his youth, who was high-minded when old.
From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been ;abandoned.
Convince an enemy, convince him that he's wrong. To win a bloodless battle, the victory is long. A simple act of faith, reason over might. To blow up his children would only prove him right.
Gordon Sumner
Security in human systems we're told will always, always last. Emotions are the sail, and blind faith is the mast. Without the breath of real freedom we're getting nowhere fast.
The world is ruled by butterflies adding to their weapon piles. Imagine what your taxes buy. We hardly ever try.
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