All Virginia Woolf Quotes
- You send a boy to school in order to make friends - the right sort. Boy
- If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? -… Advantage
- There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind… Across
- Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely… All
- For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to… Alone
- Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in… Background
- There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them; we may make them take the mould… Arm
- This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of… Assumes
- If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or 'our' country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to… Benefits
- It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike… Any
- Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the… Behind
- Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him,… Apparent
- Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the… Add
- When the Day of Judgment dawns and people, great and small, come marching in to receive their heavenly rewards, the Almighty will gaze upon the… Almighty
- First a warning, musical; then the hour, irrevocable. The leaden circles dissolved in the air. Air
- and even a tea party means apprehension, breakage Apprehension
- But the close withdrew: the hand softened. It was over-- the moment. Close
- She had the perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being out, out, far out to sea and alone; she always had the… Alone
- When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they? Affair
- Her life was a tissue of vanity and deceit. Deceit