“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”
Love
“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?”
AloneAll Quotes by Virginia Woolf
“Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.”
Power“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“Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.”
Best“I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.”
Time“Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.”
Business“The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.”
Truth“A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.”
Money“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“If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.”
Truth“When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.”
Amazing“Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.”
Art“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“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“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“Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.”
Power“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“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“I read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well in it.”
God