All Virginia Woolf Quotes
- But I don't think of the future, or the past, I feast on the moment. This is the secret of happiness, but only reached now… Age
- History is too much about wars; biography too much about great men. Biographies
- The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of… Discourse
- We agreed that people are now afraid of the English language. He [T.S. Eliot] said it came of being bookish, but not reading books enough.… Afraid
- Above all you must illumine your own soul with its profundities and its shallows, and its vanities and its generosities, and say what your beauty… All
- It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have… Artist
- It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality. Difficult
- As a woman, I have no country. As a woman my country is the world. Country
- My boyfriend used to ask his mother, 'How can I find the right woman for me?' and she would answer, 'Don't worry about finding the… Answer
- A woman must have money and room of her own if she is to write fiction Fiction
- The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder. Anguish
- A woman must have money and a room of her own. Money
- Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others Beyond
- Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the… Book
- I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street. Cross
- My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machineryalways buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this… Brain
- Let us begin by clearing up the old confusion between theman who loves learning and the man who loves reading, and point out that there… Apt