Men Quotes by Virginia Woolf

I prefer men to cauliflowers

— Virginia Woolf

So that is marriage, Lily thought, a man and a woman looking at a girl throwing a ball

— Virginia Woolf

It is probable that both in life and in art the values of a woman are not the values of a man.

— Virginia Woolf

As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.

— Virginia Woolf

Does Nature supplement what man advanced? Or does she complete what he began?

— Virginia Woolf

Biography is to give a man some kind of shape after his death.

— Virginia Woolf

war is a man's game ... the killing machine has a gender and it is male.

— Virginia Woolf

Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

— Virginia Woolf

No passion is stronger in the breast of man than the desire to make others believe as he believes

— Virginia Woolf

If we face the fact, for it is a fact, that there is no arm to cling to, but that we go…

— Virginia Woolf

Like all very handsome men who die tragically, he left not so much a character behind him as a legend. Youth and…

— Virginia Woolf

In the 18th century we knew how everything was done, but here I rise through the air, I listen to voices in…

— Virginia Woolf

Why does Samuel Butler say, 'Wise men never say what they think of women'? Wise men never say anything else apparently.

— Virginia Woolf

King old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always to to a good…

— Virginia Woolf

It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of…

— Virginia Woolf

If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men.…

— Virginia Woolf

To sit and contemplate - to remember the faces of women without desire, to be pleased by the great deeds of men…

— Virginia Woolf

Doesn't one always think of the past, in a garden with men and women lying under the trees? Aren't they one's past,…

— Virginia Woolf

What greater delight and wonder can there be than to leave the straight lines of personality and deviate into these footpaths that…

— Virginia Woolf

While fame impedes and constricts, obscurity wraps about a man like a mist; obscurity is dark, ample, and free; obscurity lets the…

— Virginia Woolf

It would be a thousand pities if women wrote like men, or lived like men, or looked like men, for if two…

— Virginia Woolf

It is permissible even for a dying hero to think before he dies how men will speak of him hereafter. His fame…

— Virginia Woolf

Men felt a chill in their hearts; a damp in their minds. In a desperate effort to snuggle their feelings into some…

— Virginia Woolf

To write weekly, to write daily, to write shortly, to write for busy people catching trains in the morning or for tired…

— Virginia Woolf

No passion is stronger in the breast of a man than the desire to make others believe as he believes. Nothing so…

— Virginia Woolf

I like the copious, shapeless, warm, not so very clever, but extremely easy and rather coarse aspect of things; the talk of…

— Virginia Woolf

In each of us two powers preside, one male, one female: and in the man's brain, the man predominates over the woman,…

— Virginia Woolf

The good diarist writes either for himself alone or for a posterity so distant that it can safely hear every secret and…

— Virginia Woolf

A learned man is a sedentary, concentrated solitary enthusiast, who searches through books to discover some particular grain of truth upon which…

— Virginia Woolf

And in me too the wave rises. It swells; it arches its back. I am aware once more of a new desire,…

— Virginia Woolf

No passion is stronger in the breast of man than the desire to make others believe as he believes. Nothing so cuts…

— Virginia Woolf

History is too much about wars; biography too much about great men.

— Virginia Woolf

I need not hate any man; he cannot hurt me. I need not flatter any man; he has nothing to give me.

— Virginia Woolf

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

— Virginia Woolf

The chief glory of a woman is not to be talked of, said Pericles, himself a much-talked-of-man.

— Virginia Woolf

To be caught happy in a world of misery was for an honest man the most despicable of crimes.

— Virginia Woolf

I detest the masculine point of view. I am bored by his heroism, virtue, and honour. I think the best these men…

— Virginia Woolf

Have you any notion how many books are written about women in the course of one year? Have you any notion how…

— Virginia Woolf

for it was not knowledge but unity that she desired, not inscriptions on tablets, nothing that could be written in any language…

— Virginia Woolf

She had read a wonderful play about a man who scratched on the wall of his cell and she had felt that…

— Virginia Woolf