Besides, in this random miscellaneous company we may rub against some complete stranger who will, with luck, turn into the best friend… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Old Madame du Deffand and her friends talked for fifty years without stopping. And of it all, what remains? Perhaps three witty… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
To communicate is our chief business; society and friendship our chief delights; and reading, not to acquire knowledge, not to earn a… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Vita has been twice. She is doomed to go to Persia; and I mind the thought so much (thinking to lose sight… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“It was chivalrous because she was too remote for real companionship, so that there was always a kind of chance in one's… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Suppose, for instance, that men were only represented in literature as the lovers of women, and were never the friends of men,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“We became six people at a table in Hampton Court. We rose and walked together down the avenue. In the thin, the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Nothing shakes my opinion of a book. Nothing -- nothing. Only perhaps if it's the book of a young person -- or… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“How curiously one is changed by the addition, even at a distance, of a friend. How useful an office one's friends perform… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I have lost friends, some by death—Percival—others through sheer inability to cross the street.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I have lost friends, some by death...others by sheer inability to cross the street. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“And I tried to remember any case in the course of my reading where two women are represented as friends. (...) almost… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I must be able to say, 'Percival, a ridiculous name'. At the same time let me tell you, men and women, hurrying… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“You send a girl to school in order to make friends - the right sort.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Communication is truth; communication is happiness. To share is our duty; to go down boldly and bring to light those hidden thoughts… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
O friendship, I too will press flowers between the pages of Shakespeare's sonnets! — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Nothing could be seen whole or read from start to finish. What was seen begun - like two friends starting to meet… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
You send a boy to school in order to make friends - the right sort. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us. To gallop intemperately; fall on the sand tired… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I am sitting up in bed: I am very very charming; and Vita is a dear old rough coated sheep dog: or… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Each had his own business to think of. Each had his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Our friends - how distant, how mute, how seldom visited and little known. And I, too, am dim to my friends and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“O friendship, how piercing are your darts - there, there, again there.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Suppose, for instance, that men were only represented in literature as the lovers of women, and were never the friends of men,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Everyone has friends who were killed in the War. Everyone gives up something when they marry.” — 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