“If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?”
Relationship
“It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.”
DreamsAll Quotes by Virginia Woolf
“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“When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.”
Amazing“Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.”
Dreams“It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.”
Dreams“Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.”
Art“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“Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.”
Power“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“Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends.”
Friendship“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“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“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“Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.”
Money“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“For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.”
History“Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?”
Men“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“A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.”
Money