“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
“The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.”
BeautyAll Quotes by Virginia Woolf
“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“A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.”
Money“Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.”
Humor“This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.”
War“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
Peace“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“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“The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.”
Beauty“Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.”
Alone“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“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“For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.”
History“Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.”
Art“It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.”
Dreams“Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.”
Dreams“Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?”
Men“To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.”
Freedom“The connection between dress and war is not far to seek your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.”
War