1,646 Quotes by Virginia Woolf

I prefer men to cauliflowers.

You can’t think how I depend on you, and when you’re not there the colour goes out of my life.

One likes people much better when they’re battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

As for ‘drawing you out,’ please believe I don’t do such things deliberately, with an object – It’s only that I am, as a rule, far more interested in people than they are in me – But it makes me a nuisance, I know: only an innocent nuisance.

Beauty was not everything. Beauty had this penalty – it came too readily, came too completely. It stilled life – froze it.

Like most uneducated Englishwomen, I like reading – I like reading books in the bulk.

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

The lake of my mind, unbroken by oars, heaves placidly and soon sinks into an oily somnolence.

It seemed ... such nonsense -- inventing differences, when people, heaven knows, were different enough without that.