All Virginia Woolf Quotes
- The chief glory of a woman is not to be talked of, said Pericles, himself a much-talked-of-man. Chief
- Now the writer, I think, has the chance to live more than other people in the presence of ... reality. It is his business to… Business
- Wine has a drastic, an astringent taste. I cannot help wincing as I drink. Ascent of flowers, radiance and heat, are distilled here to a… Ascent
- Biography is to give a man some kind of shape after his death. Biographies
- It is useless to read Greek in translation; translators can but offer us a vague equivalent. Equivalent
- Methinks the human method of expression by sound of tongue is very elementary, and ought to be substituted for some ingenious invention which should be… Able
- A strange thing has happened - while all the other arts were born naked, this, the youngest, has been born fully-clothed. It can say everything… All
- For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails,… Black
- Most of a modest woman's life was spent, after all, in denying what, in one day at least of every year, was made obvious. All
- I am to be broken. I am to be derided all my life. I am to be cast up and down among these men and… All
- Henry James seems most entirely in his element, doing that is to say what everything favors his doing, when it is a question of recollection.… Beauty
- To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves. Control
- For the film maker must come by his convention, as painters and writers and musicians have done before him. Convention
- The human frame being what it is, heart, body and brain all mixed together, and not contained in separate compartments as they will be no… All
- It would have been impossible, completely and entirely, for any woman to have written the plays of Shakespeare in the age of Shakespeare. Age
- Neither of us knows what the public will think. There's no doubt in my mind that I have found out how to begin (at forty)… Ahead
- Thoughts without words… Can that be? Funny
- The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman. It is only when we know what were the conditions of the average woman's life - the… Account
- O why do I ever let anyone read what I write! Every time I have to go through a breakfast with a letter of criticism… Anyone
- In people's eyes, in the swing, tramp, and trudge; in the bellow and uproar; the carriages, motor cars, omnibuses, vans, sandwich men shuffling and swinging;… Aeroplane