All Virginia Woolf Quotes
- But what a little I can get down into my pen of what is so vivid to my eyes, and not only to my eyes;… Down
- The future is dark, which is the best thing the future can be, I think. Best
- We seem to be riding on the top of the highest mast of the tallest ship; and yet at the same time we know that… Achievement
- In illness words seem to possess a mystic quality. Illness
- But what is more to the point is my belief that the habit of writing thus for my own eye only is good practice. It… Belief
- A perfect treat must include a trip to a second-hand bookshop. Bookshop
- Old Madame du Deffand and her friends talked for fifty years without stopping. And of it all, what remains? Perhaps three witty sayings. So that… All
- The mind is the most capricious of insects — flitting, fluttering. Capricious
- What I like, or one of the things I like, about motoring is the sense it gives one of lighting accidentally, like a voyager who… Accidentally
- Some collaboration has to take place in the mind between the woman and the man before the art of creation can be accomplished. Some marriage… Accomplished
- Novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of rousing one with a burning brand. Anodyne
- Different though the sexes are, they inter-mix. In every human being a vacillation from one sex to the other takes place, and often it is… Clothes
- Inevitably we look upon society, so kind to you, so harsh to us, as an ill-fitting form that distorts the truth; deforms the mind; fetters… Deforms
- Publicity in women is detestable. Anonymity runs in their blood. The desire to be veiled still possesses them. They are not even now as concerned… Anonymity
- We all indulge in the strange, pleasant process called thinking, but when it comes to saying, even to someone opposite, what we think, then how… Able
- Young women... you are, in my opinion, disgracefully ignorant. You have never made a discovery of any sort of importance. You have never shaken an… Any
- When an arguer argues dispassionately he thinks only of the argument. Arguer
- You cannot lecture on really pure poetry any more than you can talk about the ingredients of pure water-it is adulterated, methylated, sanded poetry that… Adulterated
- Life's bare as a bone. Bare
- Doesn't one always think of the past, in a garden with men and women lying under the trees? Aren't they one's past, all that remains… All
- So the days pass, and I ask myself whether one is not hypnotized, as a child by a silver globe, by life, and whether this… Ask
- But it is just when opinions universally prevail and we have added lip service to their authority that we become sometimes most keenly conscious that… Added
- The current flows fast and furious. It issues in a spate of words from the loudspeakers and the politicians. Every day they tell us that… Airman
- One ought to sink to the bottom of the sea, probably, and live alone with one's words. Alone
- We shall be the mouthpieces of the divine spirit— Divine