“Other worshipful objects were content with worship; men, women, God, all let one kneel prostrate; but this form, were it only the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
if newspapers were written by people whose sole object in writing was to tell the truth about politics and the truth about… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“And since a novel has this correspondence to real life, its values are to some extent those of real life. But it… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“[W]e cease to be soldiers in the army of the upright; we become deserters. They march to battle. We float with the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“But she had to write. And one letter to the Times, she used to say to Miss Brush, cost her more than… — 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
The current flows fast and furious. It issues in a spate of words from the loudspeakers and the politicians. Every day they… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“This idea struck me: the army is the body : I am the brain. Thinking is my fighting. (15 May 1940)” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“What we have to do now, then, Sir, is to lay your request before the daughters of educated men and to ask… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Those great wars which the body wages with the mind a slave to it, in the solitude of the bedroom against the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
History is too much about wars; biography too much about great men. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Young women... you are, in my opinion, disgracefully ignorant. You have never made a discovery of any sort of importance. You have… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
We read Charlotte Bronte not for exquisite observation of character, not for comedy, not for a philosophic view of life, but for… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“He soon perceived, however, that the battles which Sir Miles and the rest had waged against armed knights to win a kingdom,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Yes, our old age is not going to be sunny orchard drowse. By shutting down the fire curtain, though, I find I… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Yet it is the masculine values that prevail. Speaking crudely, football and sport are ‘important’; the worship of fashion, the buying of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
We read Charlotte Bronte not for exquisite observation of character - her characters are vigorous and elementary; not for comedy - hers… — 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
We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words… — 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
