All Virginia Woolf Quotes
- If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write… Compared
- The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity. Anonymity
- I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - as I always am when I write. Inspirational
- Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them. Detest
- It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work. Age
- Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others. Beyond
- One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats - and one always secretes too much jelly. Always Secretes
- That great Cathedral space which was childhood. Cathedral
- The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself. Diversity
- I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman. Anon
- The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind. Body
- Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body? Body
- This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she… Agree
- A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back. All
- It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality. Far
- When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly. Amazing
- Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do. Bodies
- It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses. Age
- Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame. Alone
- This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant. All
- 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