Virginia Woolf Quotes

I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - as I always am when I write.
Virginia Woolf

Woman, Thinking, Old

It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.
Virginia Woolf

Work, Age, Hard

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.
Virginia Woolf

Nature, Men, Mind

One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats - and one always secretes too much jelly.
Virginia Woolf

Down, Slip, Throats

That great Cathedral space which was childhood.
Virginia Woolf

Great, Space, Childhood

The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
Virginia Woolf

Beauty, Beautiful, Wrong

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.
Virginia Woolf

Women, Men, History

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
Virginia Woolf

Freedom, Control, Enjoy

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.
Virginia Woolf

Life, Courage, Saying

I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
Virginia Woolf

Woman, Often, Guess

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
Virginia Woolf

Men, Others, Reason

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.
Virginia Woolf

Mind, Body, Takes

The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.
Virginia Woolf

Women, Truth, Often

Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
Virginia Woolf

Dreams, Truth, Sometimes

A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back.
Virginia Woolf

Mind, Said, Once

Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?
Virginia Woolf

Heart, Woman, Violence

Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.
Virginia Woolf

Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
Virginia Woolf

Woman, Often, Guess

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.
Virginia Woolf

Reality, Far, Harder

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.
Virginia Woolf

Age, Laugh, Run

Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.
Virginia Woolf

Alone, Human, Habit

This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant.
Virginia Woolf

Writing, Knew, Literature

When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.
Virginia Woolf

Amazing, Meaning, Ordinary

You send a boy to school in order to make friends - the right sort.
Virginia Woolf

School, Friends, Order

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.
Virginia Woolf

Mind, Woman, Country

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Author

Born: January 25, 1882

Died: March 28, 1941

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