Quotes by Woolf, Virginia

The first duty of a lecturer is to hand you after an hour's discourse >>

Humor is the first gift to perish in a foreign language. >>

Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have l >>

Quotations about Faces

It has been said that a pretty face is a passport. But it's not, it's >>

The serial number of a human specimen is the face, that accidental and >>

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of ficti >>

Tom's great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An inhibited, nerve-drawn; dropped face -- as if hung on a scaffold of heavy private brooding; and thought.

Woolf, Virginia