1,646 Quotes by Virginia Woolf

Green in nature is one thing, green in literature another.

She was married, true; but if one's husband was always sailing round Cape Horn, was it marriage? If one liked him, was it marriage? If one liked other people, was it marriage? And finally, if one still wished, more than anything in the whole world, to write poetry, was it marriage? She had her doubts.

Poor little place,' he murmured with a sigh.She heard him. He said the most melancholy things, but she noticed that directly he had said them he always seemed more cheerful than usual. All this phrase-making was a game, she thought, for if she had said half what he said, she would have blown her brains out by now.

When the body escaped mutilation, seldom did the heart go to the grave unscarred.

About here, she thought, dabbling her fingers in the water, a ship had sunk, and she muttered, dreamily half asleep, how we perished, each alone.

Human beings have neither kindness, nor faith, nor charity beyond what serves to increase the pleasure of the moment.

Kind old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always go to a good man, they say[.]

I do not believe that gifts, whether of mind or character, can be weighed like sugar and butter

I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.