“The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.”
Truth
“I read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well in it.”
GodAll Quotes by Virginia Woolf
“Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends.”
Friendship“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“The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.”
History“Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.”
Alone“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“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“Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.”
Best“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“Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?”
Men“The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.”
Beauty“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”
Love“Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.”
Experience“When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.”
Amazing“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“For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.”
History“Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.”
Money