“Theories then are dangerous things.”
Source: Collected essays
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Famous Virginia Woolf Quotes
Source: Selected essays
Source: Three Guineas (Annotated)
“war is a man's game ... the killing machine has a gender and it is male.”
“Women alone stir my imagination.”
Source: Three Guineas (Annotated)
Source: Selected essays
“Lord, how tired one gets of one's own writing.”
Source: A Writer's Diary
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)
Source: The Letters of Virginia Woolf: 1932-1935
“To know whom to write for is to know how to write.”
Source: The Common Reader
“Writing is still like heaving bricks over a wall.”
Source: The question of things happening
“I think writing, my writing, is a species of mediumship. I become the person.”
Source: A Writer's Diary
“writing is the profound pleasure and being read the superficial.”
Source: A Writer's Diary
“There is no room for the impurities of literature in an essay.”
Source: Selected essays
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)
Source: A Room of One's Own: And, Three Guineas
Source: A Room of One's Own: And Three Guineas
“How lovely goodness is in those who, stepping lightly, go smiling through the world.”
Source: Monday or Tuesday: Eight Stories
Source: Jacob's Room
Source: Selected Works of Virginia Woolf
“A writer should give direct certainty; explanations are so much water poured into the wine.”
Source: The Common Reader
Source: Selected essays
Source: Orlando: A Biography
Source: Orlando: A Biography
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)
“... it's been a perpetual discovery, my life. A miracle.”
Source: The Years
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)
“Peace was the third emotion. Love. Hate. Peace. Three emotions made the ply of human life.”
Source: Between the Acts
Source: A Writer's Diary
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)
“... pure honesty is a doubtful quality; it means often lack of imagination.”
Source: The Diary of Virginia Woolf: 1920-1924
“... I doubt the capacity of the human animal for being dignified in ceremony.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)
“Writing is a divine art, and the more I write and read the more I love it.”
Source: The Letters of Virginia Woolf: 1888-1912 (Virginia Stephen)
Source: The letters of Virginia Woolf
Source: The letters of Virginia Woolf
Source: The letters of Virginia Woolf
“... why do people who live in the country always give themselves such airs?”
Source: The letters of Virginia Woolf
Source: The letters of Virginia Woolf
Source: A Change of Perspective
Source: The Letters of Virginia Woolf: 1923-1928
Source: The Letters of Virginia Woolf: 1923-1928
Source: Moments Of Being
Source: Moments of being: unpublished autobiographical writings
“Speech is an old torn net, through which the fish escape as one casts it over them.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)
“After all, what is a lovely phrase? One that has mopped up as much Truth as it can hold.”
Source: The letters of Virginia Woolf
Source: Selected essays