Quotes from Virginia Woolf
Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.
- Virginia Woolf
The chief glory of a woman is not to be talked of, said Pericles, himself a much-talked-of-man.
- Virginia Woolf
Money dignifies what is frivolous if unpaid for.
- Virginia Woolf
I do think all good and evil comes from words. I have to tune myself into a good temper with something musical, and I run to a book as a child to its mother.
- Virginia Woolf
But Sasha who after all had no English blood in her but was from Russia where the sunsets are longer, the dawns less sudden, and sentences often left unfinished from doubt as to how best to end them.
- Virginia Woolf
But Sasha was from Russia, where the sunsets are longer, the dawns less sudden and sentences are often left unfinished from doubt as how to best end them.
- Virginia Woolf
To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is...at last, to love it for what it is, and then, to put it away...
- Virginia Woolf
Who would not spout the family teapot in order to talk with Keats for an hour about poetry, or with Jane Austen about the art of fiction?
- Virginia Woolf
King old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always to to a good man, they say.
- Virginia Woolf
Now begins to rise in me the familiar rhythm; words that have lain dormant now lift, now toss their crests, and fall and rise, and falls again. I am a poet, yes. Surely I am a great poet.
- Virginia Woolf
I have sought happiness through many ages and not found it.
- Virginia Woolf
Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known euphemistically as the stately homes of England.
- Virginia Woolf