Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue

Quote by Virginia Woolf

Topics: Gifts Quotes, Humor Quotes

It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people...

It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people...

I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a...

I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a...

Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form...

Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form...

Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact...

Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact...

It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any...

It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any...

Language is wine upon the lips

Language is wine upon the lips

As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole...

As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole...

Language is wine upon the lips.

Language is wine upon the lips.

Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled...

Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled...

The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness....

The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness....

The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are...

The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are...

I read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well...

I read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well...

Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.

Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.

That great Cathedral space which was childhood.

That great Cathedral space which was childhood.

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to...

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to...

To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend...

To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend...

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming,...

My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming,...

Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes...

Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes...

Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy...

Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy...