Virginia Woolf on Friendship
Browse 2 quotations attributed to Virginia Woolf, catalogued under friendship, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Virginia Woolf, entry #94389: "Old Madame du Deffand and her friends talked for fifty years without stopping. And of it all, what remains? Perhaps three witty sayings."
Attributed to Virginia Woolf, entry #216126: "Our patience wore rather thin. Visitors do tend to chafe one, though impeccable as friends. L. and I discussed this. He says that with people in the house his hours of positive pl…"
2 Quotes by Virginia Woolf on Friendship
"Old Madame du Deffand and her friends talked for fifty years without stopping. And of it all, what remains? Perhaps three witty sayings."
"Our patience wore rather thin. Visitors do tend to chafe one, though impeccable as friends. L. and I discussed this. He says that with people in the house his hours of positive pleasure are reduced to one; he has I forget how many hours of negative pleasure; and a respectable margin of the acutely unpleasant. Are we growing old?"