Virginia Woolf's Quote - Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known, euphemis

Quote by Virginia Woolf

Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known, euphemis

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

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Humor is the first gift to perish in a foreign language. – Virginia Woolf

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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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I read the book of Job last night, I dont think God comes out well in it. – Virginia Woolf

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Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it. – G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg

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Aristocracy has three successive ages. First superiority s, then privileges and finally vanities. Having passed from the first, it degenerates in the second and dies in the third. – Vicomte De Chateaubriand

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Aristocracy is always cruel. – Wendell Phillips

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I have known a German Prince with more titles than subjects, and a Spanish nobleman with more names than shirts. – Oliver Goldsmith

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