109 Quotations by Virginia Woolf
- 61. Publicity in women is detestable. Anonymity runs in their blood. The desire to be veiled still posse ...
- 62. Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.
- 63. Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.
- 64. Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.
- 65. So the days pass, and I ask myself whether one is not hypnotized, as a child by a silver globe, by l ...
- 66. Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
- 67. Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human ...
- 68. That great Cathedral space which was childhood.
- 69. The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as s ...
- 70. The current flows fast and furious. It issues in a spate of words from the loudspeakers and the poli ...
- 71. The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
- 72. The first duty of a lecturer is to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap ...
- 73. The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story o ...
- 74. The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but ...
- 75. The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only ...
- 76. The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
- 77. The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.
- 78. The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like ...
- 79. The word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping.
- 80. There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intell ...
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