“To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.”
Freedom
“It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.”
DreamsAll Quotes by Virginia Woolf
“Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?”
Men“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 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“Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.”
Power“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“Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.”
Money“For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.”
History“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“The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.”
Romantic“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“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“Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.”
Best“Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.”
Alone“Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.”
Humor“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“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“The connection between dress and war is not far to seek your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.”
War“Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.”
Dreams“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