Quotes About Mrs Dalloway

#1. Mrs. Dalloway raised her hand to her eyes, and, as the maid shut the door to, and she heard the swish of Lucy's skirts, she felt like a nun who has left the world and feels fold round her the familiar veils and the response to old devotions.

Virginia Woolf

#2. Virginia Woolf's great novel, 'Mrs. Dalloway,' is the first great book I ever read. I read it almost by accident when I was in high school, when I was 15 years old.

Michael Cunningham

#3. She lays the book face down on her chest. Already her bedroom (no, their bedroom) feels more densely inhabited, more actual, because a character named Mrs. Dalloway is on her way to buy flowers.

Michael Cunningham

#4. Mrs Dalloway is always giving parties to cover the silence

Virginia Woolf

#5. Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.

Virginia Woolf

#6. Hearing a crow with no mouth
Cry in the deep
Darkness of the night,
I feel a longing for
My father before he was born.

Ikkyu

#7. This was a favourite dress, one of Sally Parker's, the last almost she ever made, alas, for Sally had now retired, living at Ealing, and if ever I have a moment, thought Clarissa (but never would she have a moment any more), I shall go and see her at Ealing.

Virginia Woolf

#8. Inevitably those remarks will suggest that the member of a mature scientific community is, like the typical character of Orwell's 1984, the victim of a history rewritten by the powers that be.

Thomas S. Kuhn

#9. To have a baby, raise him and educate him, is something very valuable. But we, as a society, don't see it that way.

Ricardo Salinas Pliego

#10. Evans, Evans!" He Cried.
Mrs. Smith was talking aloud to himself, Agnes the servant girl cries to Mrs. Filmer in the kitchen. "Evans, Evans" he had said as she brought in the tray. She jumped, she did. She scuttled downstairs.

Virginia Woolf

#11. She sighed, she snored, not that she was asleep, only drowsy and heavy, drowsy and heavy, like a field of clover in the sunshine this hot July day, with the bees going round and about and the yellow butterflies.

Virginia Woolf

#12. Dr. Holmes came again. Large, fresh coloured, handsome, flicking his boots, looking in the glass, he brushed it all aside-headaches, sleeplessness, fears, dreams-nerve symptoms and nothing more, he said.

Virginia Woolf

#13. Josh: I didn't know ...
Nicholas: No reason why you should have - except that your ignorance could have gotten you killed ... or worse.

Michael Scott

#14. She would not say of anyone that they were this or that.

Virginia Woolf

#15. They never saw him drawing pictures of them naked at their antics in his notebook.

Virginia Woolf

#16. Thought Clarissa Dalloway, what a morning - fresh as if issued to children on a beach.

Virginia Woolf

#17. It was protective, on her side; sprang from a sense of being in league together, a presentiment of something that was bound to part them (they spoke of marriage always as a catastrophe), which led to this chivalry, this protective feeling which was much more on her side than Sally's.

Virginia Woolf

#18. Like the pulse of a perfect heart, life struck straight through the streets.

Virginia Woolf

#19. I am trying to break free from my stripes addiction, but the pull is strong! I need help buying non-stripes.

Gillian Jacobs