Quotes by Woolf, Virginia

I am to be broken. I am to be derided all my life. I am to be cast up >>

If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or our country, let it be u >>

On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points. >>

Quotations about Translation

Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word >>

The best thing on translation was said by Cervantes: translation is th >>

To translate, one must have a style of his own, for otherwise the tran >>

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

Woolf, Virginia