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

For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year? – Virginia Woolf

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alone
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Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top. – Virginia Woolf

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Dreams
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There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us and not we them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they would mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking. – Virginia Woolf

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Clothing
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Other Quotes from
Humor
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It felt as if things were literally slipping through my fingers. Things were just streaming away from me. I lost my sense of humor. Im still looking for that. – Michelle Williams

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Humor

Bands from Akron have a sense of humor and dont tend to take themselves too seriously. – Dan Auerbach

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Humor

My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony. – Maurice Sendak

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Humor

It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them. – Edward de Bono

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Humor

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If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride. – G. K. Chesterton

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Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual. – Octavio Paz

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To me, to be a conservative means to conserve the good parts of America and to conserve our Constitution. – Ron Paul

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good

We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home. – Edward R. Murrow

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