1,646 Quotes by Virginia Woolf

She dares me to pour myself out like a living waterfall. She dares me to enter the soul that is more than my own; she extinguishes fear in mere seconds. She lets light come through.

It would have been impossible, completely and entirely, for any woman to have written the plays of Shakespeare in the age of Shakespeare.

The world has raised its whip; where will it descend?

fishing teaches a stern morality; inculcates a remorseless honesty.

But the close withdrew: the hand softened. It was over-- the moment.

Neither of us knows what the public will think. There's no doubt in my mind that I have found out how to begin (at forty) to say something in my own voice; and that interests me so that I feel I can go ahead without praise.

Humour is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

Madness is terrific I can assure you, and not to be sniffed at; and in its lava I still find most of the things I write about. It shoots out of one everything shaped, final, not in mere driblets, as sanity does.

Unless you catch ideas on the wing and nail them down, you will soon cease to have any.