One likes people much better when they’re battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph. Virginia Woolf Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say. Virginia Woolf Read Quote
The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers. Virginia Woolf Read Quote
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 Read Quote
This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant. Virginia Woolf Read Quote
Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman. Virginia Woolf Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied? Virginia Woolf Read Quote
It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer. Virginia Woolf Read Quote
