1,646 Quotes by Virginia Woolf

There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them.

Ruin, weariness, death, perpetually death, stand grimly to confront the other presence of Elizabethan drama which is life: life compact of frigates, fir trees and ivory, of dolphins and the juice of July flowers, of the milk of unicorns and panthers’ breath, of ropes of pearl, brains of peacocks and Cretan wine.

Men felt a chill in their hearts; a damp in their minds. In a desperate effort to snuggle their feelings into some sort of warmth,one subterfuge was tried after anothersentences swelled, adjectives multiplied, lyrics became epics.

old emotions like old families have intermarried and have many connections.

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.

To survive, each sentence must have, at its heart, a little spark of fire, and this, whatever the risk, the novelist must pluck with his own hands from the blaze.

I often wish I'd got on better with your father,' he said.

A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.

Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.