It seemed to her such nonsense-inventing differences, when people, heaven knows, were different enough without that.

And now more than anything I want beautiful prose. I relish it more and more exquisitely.

Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.

One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.

I detest the masculine point of view. I am bored by his heroism, virtue, and honour. I think the best these men can do is not talk about themselves anymore.

Of the rest some we know to be dead though they walk among us; some are not yet born though they go through the forms of life; others are hundreds of years old though they call themselves thirty-six.

The English tourist in American literature wants above all things something different from what he has at home. For this reason the one American writer whom the English whole-heartedly admire is Walt Whitman. There, you will hear them say, is the real American undisguised. In the whole of English literature there is no figure which resembles his - among all our poetry none in the least comparable to Leaves of Grass