dalloway quotes

Question 1

Clarissa was…

Answer 1

…at heart a snob.

Question 2

Not that she thought…

Answer 2

…herself clever, or anything much out of the ordinary.

Question 3

Clarissa was positive…

Answer 3

…a particular hush, or solemnity; an indescribable pause; a suspense.

Question 4

“How delightful…

Answer 4

…to see you! She was at her worst - effusive, insincere.

Question 5

(ED) She was…

Answer 5

…not a bit like Clarissa.

Question 6

Baby…

Answer 6

…lying stiff and white in her arms.

Question 7

She would…

Answer 7

…become a doctor, a farmer, possibly go into parliament.”

Question 8

She always had…

Answer 8

…the feeling that it was dangerous to live even one day.

Question 9

Did it matter that…

Answer 9

…she must inevitable cease completely; all this must go on without her; did she resent it:

Question 10

Kill yourself…

Answer 10

Kill yourself for our sakes.

Question 11

Even before the…

Answer 11

…war, Clarissa experienced anxiety on a daily basis. Even the simplest actions stir her fear of death now.

Question 12

Quality…

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…which could only exist between two women.

Question 13

The revelation…

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…the religious feeling.

Question 14

Sally stopped;…

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…picked a flower; kissed her on the lips. The whole world might have turned upside down!

Question 15

‘If it were…

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…now to die ‘twere now to be most happy’ That was Othello’s feeling… and she felt it … all because she was coming down to dinner in a white frock to meet Sally Seton.

Question 16

How he…

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…scolded her! How they argued!

Question 17

Talking nonsense…

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…saying things she didn’t mean, blurting the edge of her mind, losing her discrimination.

Question 18

(RD)She wanted support…

Answer 18

…not that she was weak, she wanted support.

Question 19

Not even…

Answer 19

…being Clarissa Dalloway anymore, this being Mrs Richard Dalloway.

Question 20

(P)She had…

Answer 20

…a real affection for him, he was connected with her youth.

Question 21

(P)Here…

Answer 21

…she’s been sitting all the time I’ve been in India

Question 22

To his eye…

Answer 22

…the fashions had never been so becoming; the long black cloaks; the slimness;the elegance.

Question 23

minds eternally…

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…occupied not with trivial chatterings…but with thoughts of ships, of law, of administration

Question 24

She had a…

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…perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being out, out far to sea and alone.

Question 25

Are we...

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...not all prisoners?

Question 26

Those who are...

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...about to die are alone, there was a luxury in it, an isolation full of sublimity; a freedom which the attached can never know.

Question 27

For no Dalloways...

Answer 27

...came down the Strand daily, she was a pioneer, a stray

Question 28

Mrs Dalloway...

Answer 28

...said she would buy the flowers herself.

Question 29

(MissK) She was never...

Answer 29

...in the room more than five minutes without making you feel her superiority, your inferiority; how poor she was; how rich you were.

Question 30

Miss Kilman...

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...was not going to make herself more agreeable.

Question 31

She would marry a...

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...Prime Minister and stand at the top of a staircase; the perfect hostess he called her.

Question 32

Thank you, she went on...

Answer 32

...saying in gratitude to her servants generally for helping her to be like this, to be what she wanted, gentle, generous-hearted.

Question 33

Her...

Answer 33

...servants liked her.