Patsy Trench > Patsy's Quotes

“You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.”
― oscar wilde

“I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“Sir William said he never spoke of 'madness'; he called it not having a sense of proportion.”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

“Lord, lord, the snobbery of the English!”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

“No decent man ought to read Shakespeare's sonnets because it was like listening at keyholes.”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

“That she held herself well was true; and had nice hands and feet; and dressed well, considering that she spent little. But often now this body she wore (she stopped to look at a Dutch picture), this body, with all its capacities, seemed nothing - nothing at all. She had the oddest sense of being herself invisible; unseen; unknown; there being no more marrying, no more having of children now, but only this astonishing and rather solemn progress with the rest of them, up Bond Street, this being Mrs. Dalloway, not even Clarissa any more; this being Mrs. Richard Dalloway.”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

“For in marriage a little licence,a little independence there must be between people living together day in and day out in the same house; which Richard gave her, and she him.”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

“Everyone has friends who were killed in the War. Everyone gives up something when they marry.”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

“Having perfected our disguise, we spend our lives searching for someone we don’t fool.”
― Robert Brault