1,646 Quotes by Virginia Woolf

Money dignifies what is frivolous if unpaid for.

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Why have I so little control? It is the case of much waste and pain in my life.

I detest the masculine point of view. I am bored by his heroism, virtue, and honour. I think the best these men can do is not talk about themselves anymore.

I want some one to sit beside after the day's pursuit and all its anguish, after its listening, its waitings, and its suspicions. After quarreling and reconciliation I need privacy--to be alone with you, to set this hubbub in order. For I am as neat as a cat in my habits.

I do think all good and evil comes from words. I have to tune myself into a good temper with something musical, and I run to a book as a child to its mother.

I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.

But it is just when opinions universally prevail and we have added lip service to their authority that we become sometimes most keenly conscious that we do not believe a word that we are saying.

Why does Samuel Butler say, 'Wise men never say what they think of women'? Wise men never say anything else apparently.