Truth Quotes by Virginia Woolf

... pure honesty is a doubtful quality; it means often lack of imagination.

— Virginia Woolf

“It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes makes its way to the surface.”

— Virginia Woolf

“tried to be honest, as if honesty were part of my philosophy, and”

— Virginia Woolf

Be truthful, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.

— Virginia Woolf

It doesn't have to be the truth, just your vision of it, written down.

— Virginia Woolf

Happily, at forty-six I still feel as experimental and on the verge of getting at the truth as ever.

— Virginia Woolf

“Be truthful, one would say, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.”

— Virginia Woolf

A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life

— Virginia Woolf

“The lady of 50 will be able to say how near to the truth I come; but I have written enough for…

— Virginia Woolf

if newspapers were written by people whose sole object in writing was to tell the truth about politics and the truth about…

— Virginia Woolf

If only she could put them together, she felt, write them out in some sentence, then she would have got at the…

— Virginia Woolf

Facts must be manipulated; some must be brightened; others shaded; yet, in the process, they must never lose their integrity.

— Virginia Woolf

For there is a virtue in truth; it has an almost mystic power. Like radium, it seems to give off forever and…

— Virginia Woolf

Why, if it was an illusion, not praise the catastrophe, whatever it was, that destroyed illusion and put truth in it's place?

— Virginia Woolf

“to let the light of the world flood back-to say this has not happened! But why turn one's head hither and thither?…

— Virginia Woolf

“For the truth is (let her ignore it) that human beings have neither kindness, nor faith, nor charity beyond what serves to…

— Virginia Woolf

“To give a truthful account of London society at that or indeed at any other time, is beyond the powers of the…

— Virginia Woolf

He looked very old. He looked, James thought, getting his head now against the Lighthouse, now against the waste of waters running…

— Virginia Woolf

“At any rate, when a subject is highly controversial – and any question about sex is that – one cannot hope to…

— Virginia Woolf

“We had nothing to say to each other; and I was conscious that not only my remarks but my presence was criticized.…

— Virginia Woolf

For this is the truth about our soul, he thought, who fish-like inhabits deep seas and plies among obscurities threading her way…

— Virginia Woolf

“I should never be able to fulfill what is,I understand, the first duty of a lecturer-to hand you after an hour's discourse…

— Virginia Woolf

“one cannot hope to tell the truth. One can only show how one came to hold whatever opinion one does hold. One…

— Virginia Woolf

To pursue truth with such astonishing lack of consideration for other people's feelings, to rend the think veils of civilisation so wantonly,…

— Virginia Woolf

“Beauty, the world seemed to say. And as if to prove it (scientifically) wherever he looked at the houses, at the railings,…

— Virginia Woolf

“What one means by integrity, in the case of the novelist, is the conviction that he gives one that this is the…

— Virginia Woolf

“What one means by integrity, in the case of the novelist, is the conviction that he gives one that this is the…

— 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

“To give a truthful account of London society at that or indeed at any other time, is beyond the powers of the…

— Virginia Woolf

“There it lay in the early sunshine of spring. It looked a town rather than a house, but a town built, not…

— Virginia Woolf

“Fiction here is likely to contain more truth than fact.”

— Virginia Woolf

Truth had run through my fingers. Every drop had escaped.

— Virginia Woolf

Lies will flow from my lips, but there may perhaps be some truth mixed up with them.

— Virginia Woolf

After all, what is a lovely phrase? One that has mopped up as much Truth as it can hold.

— Virginia Woolf

“Desiring truth, awaiting it, laboriously distilling a few words, forever desiring ---”

— Virginia Woolf

“To tell the truth about oneself, to discover oneself near at hand, is not easy.”

— Virginia Woolf

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

— Virginia Woolf

“Fiction here is likely to contain more truth than fact. Therefore”

— Virginia Woolf

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

— Virginia Woolf

At any rate, when a subject is highly controversial-and any question about sex is that-one cannot hope to tell the truth. One…

— Virginia Woolf