Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Quote by Virginia Woolf

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Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing...

Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing...

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

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

Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.

Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.

Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most...

Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most...

Arrange whatever pieces come your way.

Arrange whatever pieces come your way.

Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.

Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.

If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine...

If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine...

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and...

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and...

Money dignifies what is frivolous if unpaid for.

Money dignifies what is frivolous if unpaid for.

Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by...

Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by...

A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there...

A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there...

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...

These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering...

These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering...

Language is wine upon the lips.

Language is wine upon the lips.

This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us....

This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us....

Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.

Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.

Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.

Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.

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...

If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or 'our' country, let it be understood...

If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or 'our' country, let it be understood...

The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations,...

The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations,...