Virginia Woolf Quotes

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.
The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.
The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.
The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.
The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.
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.
There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking.
These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.
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.
This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant.
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.
Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.
To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.
To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.
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.
When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.
Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.
Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?
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