Logo
Quote by Virginia Woolf
But it is just when opinions universally prevail and we have added

But it is just when opinions universally prevail and we have added lip service to their authority that we become sometimes most keenly conscious that we do not believe a word that we are saying. – Virginia Woolf

Other quotes by Virginia Woolf

Why are women… so much more interesting to men than men are to women? – Virginia Woolf

Category:
Men
Author
Virginia Woolf
Read Quote

Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known, euphemistically, as the stately homes of England. – Virginia Woolf

Category:
Aristocracy
Author
Virginia Woolf
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Conformity
category

A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Category:
Conformity

The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them. – George Bernard Shaw

Category:
Conformity

Never accept the proposition that just because a solution satisfies a problem, that it must be the only solution. – Raymond E. Feist

Category:
Conformity

We are half ruined by conformity; but we should be wholly ruined without it. – Charles Dudley Warner

Category:
Conformity

Random Quotes

There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning. – Jiddu Krishnamurti

Category:
Education

My mother thinks I could have even run a larger company. – Christie Hefner

Category:
mom

If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others. – Haim Ginott

Category:
Parents

Women, for centuries not having access to pornography and now unable to bear looking at the muck on the supermarket shelves, are astonished. Women do not believe that men believe what pornography says about women. But they do. From the worst to the best of them, they do. – Andrea Dworkin

Category:
Pornography