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

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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As for my next book, I am going to hold myself from writing it till I have it impending in me: grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall. – Virginia Woolf

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Writing
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Every secret of a writers soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works. – Virginia Woolf

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Experience
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Other Quotes from
Humor
category

Sometimes the only way to make palatable that which is appalling and apprehensive is to season it with some humor. – Terrence Howard

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Humor

Tony and I had a good on and off screen relationship, we are two very different people, but we did share a sense of humor, we now live in different parts of the world but when we find ourselves in the same place it is more or less as if there had been no years in between. – Roger Moore

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Humor

Wit.—Wit is the epitaph of an emotion. – Friedrich Nietzsche, “Miscellaneous Maxims and Opinions” (#202, 1879), Human, Al

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Humor

Sometimes a scene may be about one thing, and it may end up still being about that, but the emotionality of it comes from somewhere else, or the humor of it comes from somewhere else, and it gives it that real-life quality. – Kyle Chandler

Category:
Humor

Random Quotes

I am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination. – Carlos Fuentes

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Imagination

It is better to do ones own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins. – Lao Tzu

Category:
Nature

They often say, Whats the point in astrology if you cant change your destiny?. Well, its true that you cant change your destiny, but still it helps knowing about gravity. – Kedar Joshi

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Astrology

Its become unfashionable to celebrate political achievement, and Labour achievement even less so. And its positively uncouth to be proud of something that this Labour government is doing. So, slam me for saying so, but Im really proud of the NHS. – Lucy Powell

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Government