"One must learn to be silent just..." - Quote by Virginia Woolf

“Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.”

“Chastity ... has, even now, a religious importance in a woman's life, and has so wrapped itself round with nerves and instincts that to cut it free and bring it to the light of day demands courage of the rarest.”

“One must love everything.”

“Words have a lot of power.”

“In every idea of genius or in every new human idea, or, more simply still, in every serious human idea born in anyone's brain, there is something that cannot possibly be conveyed to others.”

“When two friends are in the mood to chat, we have to go about it in a gentler and more dialectical way. By 'more dialectical,' I mean not only that we give real responses, but that we base our responses solely on what the interlocutor admits that he himself knows.”

“Dumb as a drum vith a hole in it, sir.”

“Let us have the luxury of silence.”

“The most difficult thing to understand during conversation is silence.”