Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is doing a public service.
Leslie Stephen
Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic
Henry James
Science is the systematic classification of experience.
George Henry Lewes
Not failure, but low aim, is crime.
James Russell Lowell
The Church. The Church... we're next.
Marie Antoinette
It is perhaps as difficult to write a good life as to live one.
Lytton Strachey
Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.
Rupert Brooke
There is nothing to which men cling more tenaciously than the privileges of class.
Leonard Sidney Woolf
Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.
Laurens Van der Post
One never believes other people's experience, and one is only very gradually convinced by one's own.
Vita Sackville-West
To be a good diarist, one must have a snouty, sneaky mind.
Harold Nicolson
You can not gain peace by avoiding life.
Virginia Woolf
Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
Jorge Luis Borges
Men who care passionately for women attach themselves at least as much to the temple and to the accessories of the cult as to their goddess herself.
Marguerite Yourcenar
Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.
Dorothy Allison
In the United States today, there is a pervasive tendency to treat children as adults, and adults as children. The options of children are thus steadily expanded, while those of adults are progressively constricted. The result is unruly children and childish adults.
Thomas Szasz
Love doesn't make the world go round, love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
When you reliquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.
Nicole Kidman
War is the biggest ego trip of all time.
Molly Wiest
In grade school, I was a complete geek. You know, there's always the kid who's too short, the kid who wears glasses, the kid who's not athletic. Well, I was all three.
Julianne Moore
Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.