Leonard Woolf Quotes
- The grinding of the intellect is for most people as painful as a dentists drill.
- Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.
- Life is not an orderly progression, self-contained like a musical scale or a quadratic equation... If one is to record one's life truthfully, one must…
- You can't love by desiring an extremely vague desire of a very vague moon.
- Leonard Woolf in a letter to Lytton Strachey said he hated John Maynard Keynes "for his crass stupidity and hideous face".
- There is nothing to which men cling more tenaciously than the privileges of class.