“The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.”
Truth
“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
PeaceAll Quotes by Virginia Woolf
“Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.”
Dreams“Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.”
Alone“For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.”
History“It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.”
Dreams“A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.”
Money“The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.”
Romantic“If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.”
Truth“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”
Love“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“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
Peace“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“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“Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.”
Art“When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.”
Amazing“To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.”
Freedom“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“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“Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.”
Humor