Books Quote by Virginia Woolf

“Suppose, for instance, that men were only represented in literature as the lovers of women, and were never the friends of men, soldiers, thinkers,…

— Virginia Woolf

“The most amoral man could write a brilliant literary work. The freedom to express and create what he chose was the relevant thing, because…

— Alaa Alghamdi

“Besides, women were better suited to bear sorrow than men. They lived on their emotions. They only thought of their emotions. When they took…

— Oscar Wilde

“They didn't understand, for we were Shakespeare, and they were mere actors in the play.”

— Cassandra Giovanni

“The scholar explained, very neatly, that a play might well have something interesting about it, but no literary value. He demonstrated, without wasting words,…

— Voltaire

“In the writings of other poets a character is too often an individual; in those of Shakespeare it is commonly a species.”

— Samuel Johnson

“Shakespeare's plays are not in the rigorous and critical sense either tragedies or comedies, but compositions of a distinct kind; exhibiting the real state…

— Samuel Johnson

“It is heresy to say that we shall ever again produce a poet of Shakespeare's stature, but we have faith that when the spirit…

— Alfred B. Douglas

“Shakespeare is above all writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet of nature; the poet that holds up to his readers a…

— Samuel Johnson

“Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of human need for it and it has not changed except to become more needed.…

— John Steinbeck

We poets would die of loneliness but for women, and we choose our men friends that we may have somebody to talk about women…

— William Butler Yeats

“A novel, like poetry, should have for its hero a person superior to the common herd of men.”

— Lady Shelley