“What one means by integrity, in the case of the novelist, is the conviction that he gives one that this is the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“For the vision of a novelist is both complex and specialised; complex, because behind his characters and apart from them must stand… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
But what is more to the point is my belief that the habit of writing thus for my own eye only is… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“For the truth is ... that human beings have neither kindness, nor faith, nor charity beyond what serves to increase the pleasure… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Don’t you know that our belief in man’s intellect is the greatest fallacy of them all?” “What?” I exclaimed. “Ask any journalist,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Human beings have neither kindness, nor faith, nor charity beyond what serves to increase the pleasure of the moment. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Anyhow, whether undergraduate or shop boy, man or woman, it must come as a shock about the age of twenty—the world of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“What one means by integrity, in the case of the novelist, is the conviction that he gives one that this is the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Things were not so simple after all. She could not understand even her own feelings. She saw the most cherished of her… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“My belief is that if we live another century or so — I am talking of the common life which is the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“As a matter of fact, this effort at discipline had been helped by the interests of a difficult profession, but the old… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“They say that one must beat one's wings against the storm in the belief that beyond this welter the sun shines” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“For the truth is (let her ignore it) that human beings have neither kindness, nor faith, nor charity beyond what serves to… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“The train slows and lengthens, as we approach London, the centre, and my heart draws out too, in fear, in exaltation. I am about… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Across the broad continent of a woman's life falls the shadow of a sword. On one side all is correct, definite, orderly; the paths… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Other worshipful objects were content with worship; men, women, God, all let one kneel prostrate; but this form, were it only the shape of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Why does Samuel Butler say, 'Wise men never say what they think of women'? Wise men never say anything else apparently. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Sometimes he woke with a brain like lead; at others it was as if a thousand wax tapers were alight and people were throwing… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman. It is only when we know what were the conditions of the average woman's life -… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Love ought to stop on both sides, don’t you think, simultaneously?’ He spoke without any stress on the words, so as not to wake… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“It is so vast an alleviation to be able to point for another to look at. And then not to talk. To follow the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“What a vast fertility of pleasure books hold for me! (...) I think I could happily live here & read forever.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image