Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was an English writer, novelist, essayist, and literary critic. She is best known for her novels - Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, and The Waves.Wisdom & Quotes
- The beauty of the world which is soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
- One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
- When an arguer argues dispassionately, he thinks only of the argument.
- The mind of an artist, in order to achieve the prodigious effort of freeing whole and entire the work that is in him must be incandescent. …There must be no obstacle in it, no foreign matter unconsumed.
- I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without singing them, was often a woman.
- Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
- Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.
- Fiction, imaginative work that is, is not dropped like a pebble upon the ground, as science may be; fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.
- Why are women… so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
- Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
- Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.
- Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
- Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known, euphemistically, as the stately homes of England.
- If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
- The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
- Life's bare as a bone.
- If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, I've no doubt; but already should be faded, fatalistic, and aged.
- To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.
Khalil Gibran