Virginia Woolf Quotes
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For such will be our ruin if you, in the immensity of your public abstractions, forget the private figure, or if we in the intensity of our private emotions forget the public world. Both houses will be ruined, the public and the private, the material and the spiritual, for they are inseparably connected.
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History is too much about wars; biography too much about great men.
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One can only believe entirely, perhaps, in what one cannot see.
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I often wish I'd got on better with your father,' he said.
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As for 'drawing you out,' please believe I don't do such things deliberately, with an object -- It's only that I am, as a rule, far more interested in people than they are in me -- But it makes me a nuisance, I know: only an innocent nuisance.
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Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure
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I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.
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The world was going on as usual. All the time she was writing the world had continued.
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Never pretend that the things you haven't got are not worth having.
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We are cut, we are fallen. We are become part of that unfeeling universe that sleeps when we are at our quickest and burns red when we lie asleep.
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Truth had run through my fingers. Every drop had escaped.
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The chief glory of a woman is not to be talked of, said Pericles, himself a much-talked-of-man. Virginia Woolf