Mrs Dalloway novel quotes

The marriage of Clarissa and Richard

'a little independence ther emus tbe between people living together day in day out in the same house'

Seperation of Clarissa and Mrs Dalloway

'not even Clarissa anymore, this being Mrs Richard Dalloway'

Dissasociation from the body

'often now this body she wore'

Elizabeth's rebellion

'For no Dalloway's came down the strand daily; she was a pioneer…she inclined to be passive'

Sally and Clarissa

'they meant to found a society to abolish private property'

Sally's end

'The last person in the world one would have expected to marry a rich man and live in a large house near Manchester'

Religious nature of the attic

'She felt like a nun who has left the world and…the response to old devotion'

Clarissa's pleasure

'She had seen an illumination…an inner meaning almost expressed'

End of sexual passion - a return of purity

'narrower and narrower would her bed be'/'not dispel a virginity preserved through childbirth'

Rebellious manifesto

'she did undoubtedly then feel what men felt'

Relationship of Peter and Clarissa

'Peter Walsh and Clarissa…challenged each other'

Clarissa's activity

'Mrs Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself'

Return to normalcey

'the war was over…thank heavens - over'/'King and Queen…lords, ascot Ranelagh '

Birds

'beak-nosed'/'a touch of the bird about her'

Clarissa's pain at fufilling her role

'the perfect hostess he called her, she had cried over it'

Septimus' view of the world

'the world wavered, and quivered and threatened to burst into flames'

Power of the aeroplance - bathetic consumerism

'the whole world was perfectly silent…it's toffee'

Septimus' manifesto

'above all scientific…All taken together meant the birth of a new religion'

Love for sally

'the purity, the integrity, of her feeling for sally. It was not like one's feeling for a man'

Faux marriage

'in a white frock to meet sally seton…picked a flower; kissed her on the lips…a diamond'

Septimus' power

'Greeks, Romans, Shakespeare, Darwin and now himself'

Pressure on Septimus

'human nature, in short, was on him…The whole world was clamouring; Kill yourself, kill yourself, for our sakes'

Upward mobility of Bradshaw

'the very large fee…the son of a shopkeeper'

Idiocy of the rest cure

'these prophetic Christs and Christesses…should drink milk in bed'

Bradshaw's desire

'the craving which lit her husband's eye so oilily for dominion, for power

Richard's ability to move on

'Did she wish she had married Peter? But he must go. He must be off.'

Clarissa's priorities

feel nothing for the Albanians, or was it the Armenians? But she loved the roses'

Mocking of Clarissa's parties

'Her parties!…Her parties!…both of the criticised her very unfairly, laughed at her very unjustly for her parties'

Septimus' death

'flung himself vigorously, violent down on to Mrs. Filmer's area railings./The coward'

Clarissa's reaction to the death

'it was her disaster - it was her disgrace'