Top 84 Yes Virginia Quotes

#1. Holyfuckingmancandy.

Virginia Nelson

Yes Virginia Quotes #338
#2. Her soul rusted with that grievance sticking in it

Virginia Woolf

Yes Virginia Quotes #596
#3. Could not decide whether he was the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world. It

Virginia Woolf

Yes Virginia Quotes #929
#4. Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth.

Virginia Woolf

Yes Virginia Quotes #1590
#5. Madness is terrific I can assure you, and not to be sniffed at; and in its lava I still find most of the things I write about. It shoots out of one everything shaped, final, not in mere driblets, as sanity does.

Virginia Woolf

Yes Virginia Quotes #1852
#6. The only advice ... that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions.

Virginia Woolf

Yes Virginia Quotes #2909
#7. He would look over the edge of the sofa down into the sea.

Virginia Woolf

Yes Virginia Quotes #3171
#8. [Ulysses is] the work of a queasy undergraduate scratching his pimples.

Virginia Woolf

Yes Virginia Quotes #3549
#9. Tragedies come in the hungry hours.

Virginia Woolf

Yes Virginia Quotes #4895
#10. Let go of him, for cryin' out loud!

Virginia Smith

Yes Virginia Quotes #5430
#11. To love makes one solitary.

Virginia Woolf

Yes Virginia Quotes #5762
#12. Freedom and fullness of expression are of the essence of the art.

Virginia Woolf

Yes Virginia Quotes #6506
#13. You can't think how I depend on you, and when you're not there the colour goes out of my life.

Virginia Woolf

Yes Virginia Quotes #7939
#14. Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.

Virginia Woolf

Yes Virginia Quotes #8185
#15. The summer is put away folded up in the drawer with other summers.

Virginia Woolf

Yes Virginia Quotes #8511
#16. Women have sat indoors all these millions of years, so that by this time the very walls are permeated by their creative force, which has, indeed, so overcharged the capacity of bricks and mortar that it must needs harness itself to pens and brushes and business and politics.

Virginia Woolf

Yes Virginia Quotes #8792
#17. It is the fate of the innocent to suffer.

Virginia Woolf

Yes Virginia Quotes #9311
#18. And still I stayed to plan all my revenge, my vengeance against those who had turned me from good to evil, and made of me what I was going to be from this day forward.

Virginia C. Andrews

Yes Virginia Quotes #9551
#19. So, when there is a strife of tongues, at some meeting, the chairman, to obtain unity, suggests that every one shall speak in French. Perhaps it is bad French; French may not contain the words that express the speaker's thoughts; nevertheless speaking French imposes some order, some uniformity.

Virginia Woolf

Yes Virginia Quotes #11038
#20. Once you begin to take yourself seriously as a leader or as a follower, as a modern or as a conservative, then you become a self-conscious, biting, and scratching little animal whose work is not of the slightest value or importance to anybody.

Virginia Woolf

Yes Virginia Quotes #11120
#21. How remorseless life is!

Virginia Woolf

Yes Virginia Quotes #12301
#22. But who, save the nerve-worn and sleepless, or thinkers standing with hands to the eyes on some crag above the multitude, see things thus in skeleton outline, bare of flesh?

Virginia Woolf

Yes Virginia Quotes #14081
#23. I grew up at the base of a mountain in Virginia, so my comfort zone is that Appalachian area, where all the dudes wear Carhartt and all the women can put on a beautiful sweater with a snowman applique and nobody raises an eyebrow.

Hilarie Burton

Yes Virginia Quotes #17125
#24. But when she looked at Prue tonight, she saw this was not now quite true of her. She was just beginning, just moving, just descending.

Virginia Woolf

Yes Virginia Quotes #17444
#25. If you find yourself born in Barnsley and then set your sights on being Virginia Woolf it is not going to be roses all the way.

Alan Bennett

Yes Virginia Quotes #18506
#26. I can reprint it. And ... I was thinking about staying in Virginia permanently after Ellie is back on her feet."
The remorse fled quickly. "Over my dead body."
"Yeah, I thought you'd say that.

Samantha Young

Yes Virginia Quotes #19731
#27. Venerable are letters, infinitely brave, forlorn, and lost.

Virginia Woolf

Yes Virginia Quotes #20042
#28. A sort of transaction went on between them, in which she was on one side, and life was on another, and she was always trying to get the better of it, as it was of her.

Virginia Woolf

Yes Virginia Quotes #21114
#29. Life is not what it's supposed to be. It's what it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference.

Aleatha Romig

Yes Virginia Quotes #22239
#30. My mind is so impatient, so quick, in some ways so desperate.

Virginia Woolf

Yes Virginia Quotes #22379
#31. It is impossible for human beings, constituted as they are, both to fight and to have ideals.

Virginia Woolf

Yes Virginia Quotes #23717
#32. Roses," she thought sardonically, "All trash, m'dear.

Virginia Woolf

Yes Virginia Quotes #24785
#33. Out-of-whack emotions are always a good beginning point for identifying beliefs that aren't really true, an easy red flag for our inquiry. Exaggerated emotions of anxiety or discouragement invite us to trace them back to the thoughts that are creating them.

Virginia H. Pearce

Yes Virginia Quotes #24948
#34. Sleep well in my arms tonight, love, but know that we must come to an understanding of sorts--for I be a full-blooded male as this fire in my loins doth remind me--and unfortunately, not the saint ye so obviously would have me!

Virginia Aird

Yes Virginia Quotes #25043
#35. It appeared that nobody ever said a thing they meant, or ever talked of a feeling they felt, but that was what music was for.

Virginia Woolf

Yes Virginia Quotes #25383
#36. There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.

Virginia Woolf

Yes Virginia Quotes #25637
#37. They became part of that unreal but penetrating and exciting universe which is the world seen through the eyes of love

Virginia Woolf

Yes Virginia Quotes #27563
#38. It is strange that we, who are capable of so much suffering, should inflict so much suffering.

Virginia Woolf

Yes Virginia Quotes #27843
#39. It is so vast an alleviation to be able to point for another to look at. And then not to talk. To follow the dark paths of the mind and enter the past, to visit books, to brush aside their branches and break off some fruit.

Virginia Woolf

Yes Virginia Quotes #29546
#40. As for himself, when he went to go to a party, as one was sometimes obliged to, from a wish not to give offence, he walked into the middle of the room, said 'Ha! Ha!' as loud as ever he could, considered he had done his duty, and went home.

Virginia Woolf

Yes Virginia Quotes #30161
#41. Here am I shedding one of my life-skins and all they will say is, 'Bernard is spending ten days in Rome'.

Virginia Woolf

Yes Virginia Quotes #30417
#42. But nothing is so strange when one is in love (and what was this except being in love?) as the complete indifference of other people.

Virginia Woolf

Yes Virginia Quotes #30974
#43. I have sought happiness through many ages and not found it.

Virginia Woolf

Yes Virginia Quotes #31101
#44. I like kids, but I don't expect to have any of my own. I'm 40 years old and spend most of my time working. I'd be a terrible mother.

Virginia Postrel

Yes Virginia Quotes #31204
#45. About here, she thought, dabbling her fingers in the water, a ship had sunk, and she muttered, dreamily half asleep, how we perished, each alone.

Virginia Woolf

Yes Virginia Quotes #31762
#46. One does not like to be told that one is naturally the inferior of a little man

Virginia Woolf

Yes Virginia Quotes #33412
#47. Clumsiness is often mated with a love of solitude.

Virginia Woolf

Yes Virginia Quotes #34106
#48. Like a ghostly roll of drums remorselessly beat the measure of life.

Virginia Woolf

Yes Virginia Quotes #34887
#49. This core of darkness could go anywhere, for no one saw it.

Virginia Woolf

Yes Virginia Quotes #35208
#50. The most important thing is not to think very much about oneself. To investigate candidly the charge; but not fussily, not very anxiously. On no account to retaliate by going to the other extreme
thinking too much.

Virginia Woolf

Yes Virginia Quotes #35694
#51. And if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and standing in our midst, she would undoubtedly bid us break her and bully her, as well as honour and love her, for so her youth is renewed and her sovereignty assured.

Virginia Woolf

Yes Virginia Quotes #35758
#52. Most of a modest woman's life was spent, after all, in denying what, in one day at least of every year, was made obvious.

Virginia Woolf

Yes Virginia Quotes #36335
#53. Art is not a copy of the real world; one of the damn things is enough.

Virginia Woolf

Yes Virginia Quotes #36368
#54. Woman cannot survive on droplets, she requires waves to regularly crash over her shores as the moon gives way to the sun...

Virginia Alison

Yes Virginia Quotes #38229
#55. As for my next book, I won't write it till it has grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall.

Virginia Woolf

Yes Virginia Quotes #38553
#56. Truth matters. Everything we can do to find, feed, and strengthen it is worth the effort.

Virginia H. Pearce

Yes Virginia Quotes #38796
#57. The mind is certainly a very mysterious organ, I reflected, drawing my head in from the window, about which nothing whatever is known, though we depend upon it so completely.

Virginia Woolf

Yes Virginia Quotes #40988
#58. It would be a comfort, she felt, to lean; to sit down; yes, to lie down; never, never, never to get up again.

Virginia Woolf

Yes Virginia Quotes #80331
#59. Well, she'd been in shock. She could've believed just about anything. The Easter Bunny, tooth fairy, Santa... Yes, Virginia, men do let you down.

Melissa Tagg

Yes Virginia Quotes #164048
#60. Yes Virginia, There is a Santa Claus.

Francis Pharcellus Church

Yes Virginia Quotes #209346
#61. Her eyes were full of a hot liquid (she did not think of tears at first) which, without disturbing the firmness of her lips, made the air thick, rolled down her cheeks. She had perfect control of herself-Oh, yes!-in every other way.

Virginia Woolf

Yes Virginia Quotes #212182
#62. Yes, she thought, laying down her brush in extreme fatigues, I have had my vision.

Virginia Woolf

Yes Virginia Quotes #267311
#63. Negotiating the adolescent stage is neither quick nor easy ... I have often said to parents, "If it isn't illegal, immoral, orfattening, give it your blessing." We do much better ... if we find and support all the places we can appropriately say yes, and say only the no's that really matter.

Virginia Satir

Yes Virginia Quotes #306257
#64. He was a thorough good sort; a bit limited; a bit thick in the head; yes; but a thorough good sort. Whatever he took up he did in the same matter-of-fact sensible way; without a touch of imagination, without a sparkle of brilliancy, but with the inexplicable niceness of his type.

Virginia Woolf

Yes Virginia Quotes #321733
#65. Yes, our old age is not going to be sunny orchard drowse. By shutting down the fire curtain, though, I find I can live in the moment; which is good; why yield a moment to regret or envy or worry? Why indeed? (24 December 1940)

Virginia Woolf

Yes Virginia Quotes #378444
#66. I belong to quick, futile moments of intense feeling. Yes, I belong to moments. Not to people.

Virginia Woolf

Yes Virginia Quotes #404111
#67. His hands are caressing her skin, hips, thighs, and ass. One slips between her legs, gently stroking, opening her a little for him, and then he lifts his head and she feels it. His mouth, right there. Blair's eyes fall shut. Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. She

Andrea Simonne

Yes Virginia Quotes #512961
#68. Virginia Woolf came along in the early part of the century and essentially said through her writing, yes, big books can be written about the traditional big subjects. There is war. There is the search for God. These are all very important things.

Michael Cunningham

Yes Virginia Quotes #625334
#69. [Virginia] has a very sizeable collection of democrats, liberals and moonbats. (Yes, they can be separated.)

John Ringo

Yes Virginia Quotes #643242
#70. Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist.

Francis Pharcellus Church

Yes Virginia Quotes #680587
#71. Yes, the small village that we live in, in Virginia, is a very interesting place, in terms of its Civil War history, because it was a town that was founded by Quakers in 1733.

Geraldine Brooks

Yes Virginia Quotes #692100
#72. But suppose Peter said to her, "Yes, yes, but your parties - what's the sense of your parties?" all she could say was (and nobody could be expected to understand): They're an offering; which sounded horribly vague. But

Virginia Woolf

Yes Virginia Quotes #753529
#73. Have I never understood you, Katherine? Have I been very selfish?' 'Yes ... You've asked her for sympathy, and she's not sympathetic; you've wanted her to be practical, and she's not practical.

Virginia Woolf

Yes Virginia Quotes #754754
#74. Virginia: Oh, you made it.
Tony: I was going to say the same to you. I've been here quite a while
Virginia: Really?
Tony: Yes, about an hour.
Virginia: I didn't know it was a race.
Tony: I didn't know that was a path.

Kathryn Wesley

Yes Virginia Quotes #875961
#75. The jury had never been allowed to see any evidence that Laetrile actually worked. (Yes Virginia, they can bury medical breakthroughs in court this way also.) Dr. Kowan ... was ... age 70 ...

G. Edward Griffin

Yes Virginia Quotes #941510
#76. Oh, yes, dear reader: the essay is alive. There is no reason to despair.

Virginia Woolf

Yes Virginia Quotes #941832
#77. The three phases of Santa belief:
(1) Santa is real.
(2) Santa isn't real.
(3) Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.

Alton Thompson

Yes Virginia Quotes #1029747
#78. Think of me, the uneducated child reading books in my room at 22 Hyde Park Gate
now advanced to this glory ... Yes; all that reading, I say, has borne this odd fruit. And I am pleased.

Virginia Woolf

Yes Virginia Quotes #1045136
#79. Yes, I miss you, I miss you.

Virginia Woolf

Yes Virginia Quotes #1103871
#80. What have I done to anger you, mate?"
"That. That's what you did. I'm not your mate."
He leaned in close and ran his nose up her neck, inhaling a deep breath. "Yes, you are," he whispered next to her ear.

Virginia Cavanaugh

Yes Virginia Quotes #1107998
#81. My ears were once pierced, but the tiny holes have since resealed through lack of penetration. And yes, there's another analogy in there, but let's not get off topic.

Virginia Franken

Yes Virginia Quotes #1305177
#82. Now begins to rise in me the familiar rhythm; words that have lain dormant now lift, now toss their crests, and fall and rise, and falls again. I am a poet, yes. Surely I am a great poet.

Virginia Woolf

Yes Virginia Quotes #1389589
#83. And I suppose have only made myself more unpopular: ah yes: but freer. That's the point.

Virginia Woolf

Yes Virginia Quotes #1619163
#84. Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies!

Francis Pharcellus Church

Yes Virginia Quotes #1811584

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