Carlyle's House and Other Sketches Quotes

“You have no one who has any sort of consideration for you. You have had patience and endurance till I am sick of the virtues, and what have they done for you? Half-killed you.”
― Virginia Woolf, Carlyle's House and Other Sketches

“She lacks mystery; and the charm people have who withdraw, and don't care to coin their views. One figures her always in flight; so much determined to embrace everything that she fails.”
― Virginia Woolf, Carlyle's House and Other Sketches

“She seemed determined to be human also; to like people, even though they were stupid.”
― Virginia Woolf, Carlyle's House and Other Sketches

“We had nothing to say to each other; and I was conscious that not only my remarks but my presence was criticized. They wished for the truth, and doubted whether a woman could speak it or be it. I thought this courageous of them; but unsympathetic. I had to remember that one is not full grown at 21.”
― Virginia Woolf, Carlyle's House and Other Sketches