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
When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
A learned man is a sedentary, concentrated solitary enthusiast, who searches through books to discover some particular grain of truth upon which… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women? — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of utmost importance; very… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
In people's eyes, in the swing, tramp, and trudge; in the bellow and uproar; the carriages, motor cars, omnibuses, vans, sandwich men… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
It would be a thousand pities if women wrote like men, or lived like men, or looked like men, for if two… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
If we face the fact, for it is a fact, that there is no arm to cling to, but that we go… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
No passion is stronger in the breast of a man than the desire to make others believe as he believes. Nothing so… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
To write weekly, to write daily, to write shortly, to write for busy people catching trains in the morning or for tired… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I detest the masculine point of view. I am bored by his heroism, virtue, and honour. I think the best these men… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
To be caught happy in a world of misery was for an honest man the most despicable of crimes. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
war is a man's game ... the killing machine has a gender and it is male. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
It is probable that both in life and in art the values of a woman are not the values of a man. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
madam," the man cried, leaping to the ground, "you're hurt!" "I'm dead, sir!" she replied. A few minutes later, they became engaged. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The good diarist writes either for himself alone or for a posterity so distant that it can safely hear every secret and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
King old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always to to a good… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
While fame impedes and constricts, obscurity wraps about a man like a mist; obscurity is dark, ample, and free; obscurity lets the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Men felt a chill in their hearts; a damp in their minds. In a desperate effort to snuggle their feelings into some… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Some collaboration has to take place in the mind between the woman and the man before the art of creation can be… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Does Nature supplement what man advanced? Or does she complete what he began? — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
No passion is stronger in the breast of man than the desire to make others believe as he believes — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
To sit and contemplate - to remember the faces of women without desire, to be pleased by the great deeds of men… — 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
