“To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.”
Source: A Room of One's Own: And, Three Guineas
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Source: The Essays of Virginia Woolf: 1912-1918
Source: Selected Works of Virginia Woolf
“Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.”
Source: The Common Reader
“Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.”
Source: The Diary of Virginia Woolf: 1915-1919
Source: A Room of One's Own: And, Three Guineas
Source: A moment's liberty: the shorter diary
“Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.”
Source: The Common Reader
“On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.”
Source: Selected Works of Virginia Woolf
Source: A Writer's Diary
Source: A Writer's Diary
Source: A Room of One's Own: And Three Guineas
Source: The Diary of Virginia Woolf: 1925-1930
Source: The letters of Virginia Woolf
Source: Selected essays
“That great Cathedral space which was childhood.”
Source: Moments of being: unpublished autobiographical writings
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)
“The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.”
Source: The Common Reader
“It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.”
Source: Selected essays
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)
“Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.”
Source: A Room of One's Own: And, Three Guineas
“Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.”
Source: Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)
“You send a boy to school in order to make friends - the right sort.”
Source: 1920-1924
Source: Three Guineas
Source: The death of the moth: and other essays
Source: Selected Works of Virginia Woolf
Source: The Waves
Source: Orlando: A Biography
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)
Source: A Room of One's Own (Annotated)
Source: Selected essays
“First a warning, musical; then the hour, irrevocable. The leaden circles dissolved in the air.”
Source: Selected Works of Virginia Woolf
“and even a tea party means apprehension, breakage”
Source: The Diary of Virginia Woolf: 1931-1935
“But the close withdrew: the hand softened. It was over-- the moment.”
Source: Selected Works of Virginia Woolf
“When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?”
Source: Night and Day