“For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.”
History
“Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.”
MoneyAll Quotes by Virginia Woolf
“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
Peace“Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.”
Best“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 at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.”
Intelligence“Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.”
Money“Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends.”
Friendship“Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?”
Men“The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.”
Romantic“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 minded beyond reason the opinions of others.”
Nature“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 thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.”
Courage“We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.”
Best“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 people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.”
Experience“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? - not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?”
Education“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”
Love“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 the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say.”
Truth“The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.”
Happiness“The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.”
Truth“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 thirteen thousand a year?”
Alone“The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.”
Beauty“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