Quote by Virginia Woolf
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue. - V

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue. – Virginia Woolf

Other quotes by Virginia Woolf

Its not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us its the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses. – Virginia Woolf

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Age
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There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea. – Virginia Woolf

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Intelligence
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Other Quotes from
Humor
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I find that people find a way out of misery through humor and its humor thats often unacceptable to people who are not in quite such a state of misery. – Danny Boyle

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Wit is the lowest form of humor. – Alexander Pope

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Humor

There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them. – Robert Benchley

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A sense of humor is great – it goes a long, long way in a marriage. – Chris Rock

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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched. – George Jean Nathan

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I dyed my hair blonde when I was 14. My mom was not happy. But I love being blonde. – Rita Ora

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There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good. – Mahatma Gandhi

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