Life Quotes

Instead of buying six things, buy one thing that you really like. Don't keep buying just for the sake of it.

Vivienne Westwood

If we didn't have the Chinese buying things, we'd be on the floor.

Vivienne Westwood

I've got a terrible memory; it's probably because I'm always concentrating on what I'm doing now.

Vivienne Westwood

I do think we're an endangered species. But that we do have a plan to save the rainforest.

Vivienne Westwood

I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun.

Virginia Woolf

How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?

Virginia Woolf

It was a miserable machine, an inefficient machine, she thought, the human apparatus for painting or for feeling; it always broke down at the critical moment; heroically, one must force it on.

Virginia Woolf

I am reading Henry James… and feel myself as one entombed in a block of smooth amber.

Virginia Woolf

No sooner have you feasted on beauty with your eyes than your mind tells you that beauty is vain and beauty passes

Virginia Woolf

For the eye has this strange property: it rests only on beauty.

Virginia Woolf

Being a one of a kind means we are automatically the best in the world at what we do.

Victor WIlliamson

The young need discipline and a full bookcase.

Vivienne Westwood

Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.

Virginia Woolf

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

Life is short and you die at the end of it. But everyone wants to have a sense of purpose for their life no matter how long or short that life is. There is no greater purpose than to have the courage to be a member of one's country's military and thu...

Violet Weed

I tell you this because books for young readers are so often written about that very moment: the moment of the fork. The moment the old man cannot return to.

Virginia Euwer Wolff

A lot of childhood effort, worry, and whispering goes into cracking the codes of adult life. Children have to be accomplished spies.

Vera B. Williams

While fame impedes and constricts, obscurity wraps about a man like a mist; obscurity is dark, ample, and free; obscurity lets the mind take its way unimpeded. Over the obscure man is poured the merciful suffusion of darkness. None knows where he goe...

Virginia Woolf

Buy less, choose well & do it yourself!

Vivienne Westwood

Possible then the professor inited a little too emphatically upon the inferiority of omen, he was concerned not with their inferiority, but with his superiority.

Virginia Woolf

For it is probable that when people talk aloud, the selves (of which there may be more than two thousand) are conscious of disserverment, and are trying to communicate but when communication is established there is nothing more to be said.

Virginia Woolf