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The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers. - Virginia Woolf Quotes

The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.

British Author Clothes

As a woman, I have no country. As a woman my country is the world. - Virginia Woolf Quotes

As a woman, I have no country. As a woman my country is the world.

British Author Country

I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past. - Virginia Woolf Quotes

I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.

British Author Emotions

One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph - Virginia Woolf Quotes

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

Arrange whatever pieces come your way - Virginia Woolf Quotes

Arrange whatever pieces come your way

The older one grows, the more one likes indecency. - Virginia Woolf Quotes

The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.

My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery -always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for? - Virginia Woolf Quotes

My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery -always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?

Brain

There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking. - Virginia Woolf Quotes

There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking.

British Author Clothes

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end. - Virginia Woolf Quotes

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. - Virginia Woolf Quotes

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more. - Virginia Woolf Quotes

Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.

British Author Editor's Pick Life Quote of the Day

These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism. - Virginia Woolf Quotes

These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are. - Virginia Woolf Quotes

Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.

It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses. - Virginia Woolf Quotes

It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.

Age And Aging British Author

The current flows fast and furious. It issues in a spate of words from the loudspeakers and the politicians. Every day they tell us that we are a free people fighting to defend freedom. That is the current that has whirled the young airman up into the sky and keeps him circulating there among the clouds. Down here, with a roof to cover us and a gas mask handy, it is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth. - Virginia Woolf Quotes

The current flows fast and furious. It issues in a spate of words from the loudspeakers and the politicians. Every day they tell us that we are a free people fighting to defend freedom. That is the current that has whirled the young airman up into the sky and keeps him circulating there among the clouds. Down here, with a roof to cover us and a gas mask handy, it is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Politicians Propaganda

What is meant by ''reality''? It would seem to be something very erratic, very undependable -- now to be found in a dusty road, now in a scrap of newspaper in the street, now a daffodil in the sun. It lights up a group in a room and stamps some casual saying - Virginia Woolf Quotes

What is meant by ''reality''? It would seem to be something very erratic, very undependable -- now to be found in a dusty road, now in a scrap of newspaper in the street, now a daffodil in the sun. It lights up a group in a room and stamps some casual saying

Novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of rousing one with a burning brand.

For most of history, Anonymous was a woman. - Virginia Woolf Quotes

For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.

British Author History

Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible. - Virginia Woolf Quotes

Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.

On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points. - Virginia Woolf Quotes

On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.

Agony British Author

The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general. - Virginia Woolf Quotes

The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Communication Life

If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of the utmost importance; very various; heroic and mean; splendid and sordid; infinitely beautiful and hideous in the extreme; as great as a man, some think - Virginia Woolf Quotes

If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of the utmost importance; very various; heroic and mean; splendid and sordid; infinitely beautiful and hideous in the extreme; as great as a man, some think

Tom's great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An inhibited, nerve-drawn; dropped face -- as if hung on a scaffold of heavy private brooding; and thought. - Virginia Woolf Quotes

Tom's great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An inhibited, nerve-drawn; dropped face -- as if hung on a scaffold of heavy private brooding; and thought.

Faces

It is worth mentioning, for future reference, that the creative power which bubbles so pleasantly in beginning a new book quiets down after a time, and one goes on more steadily. Doubts creep in. Then one becomes resigned. Determination not to give in, and the sense of an impending shape keep one at it more than anything. - Virginia Woolf Quotes

It is worth mentioning, for future reference, that the creative power which bubbles so pleasantly in beginning a new book quiets down after a time, and one goes on more steadily. Doubts creep in. Then one becomes resigned. Determination not to give in, and the sense of an impending shape keep one at it more than anything.

Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works. - Virginia Woolf Quotes

Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

British Author Experience

A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out. - Virginia Woolf Quotes

A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.

British Author Quality

Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded - Virginia Woolf Quotes

Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded

A strange thing has happened -- while all the other arts were born naked, this, the youngest, has been born fully-clothed. It can say everything before it has anything to say. It is as if the savage tribe, instead of finding two bars of iron to play with, had found scattering the seashore fiddles, flutes, saxophones, trumpets, grand pianos by Erhard and Bechstein, and had begun with incredible energy, but without knowing a note of music, to hammer and thump upon them all at the same time. - Virginia Woolf Quotes

A strange thing has happened -- while all the other arts were born naked, this, the youngest, has been born fully-clothed. It can say everything before it has anything to say. It is as if the savage tribe, instead of finding two bars of iron to play with, had found scattering the seashore fiddles, flutes, saxophones, trumpets, grand pianos by Erhard and Bechstein, and had begun with incredible energy, but without knowing a note of music, to hammer and thump upon them all at the same time.

It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer. - Virginia Woolf Quotes

It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer.

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality - Virginia Woolf Quotes

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality - Virginia Woolf Quotes

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality

Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order. - Virginia Woolf Quotes

Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.

Without self-confidence we are as babes in the cradles. And how can we generate this imponderable quality, which is yet so invaluable most quickly? By thinking that other people are inferior to oneself. - Virginia Woolf Quotes

Without self-confidence we are as babes in the cradles. And how can we generate this imponderable quality, which is yet so invaluable most quickly? By thinking that other people are inferior to oneself.

Confidence Self-confidence

Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time - Virginia Woolf Quotes

Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time

Inevitably we look upon society, so kind to you, so harsh to us, as an ill-fitting form that distorts the truth; deforms the mind; fetters the will. - Virginia Woolf Quotes

Inevitably we look upon society, so kind to you, so harsh to us, as an ill-fitting form that distorts the truth; deforms the mind; fetters the will.

A woman must have money and room of her own if she is to write fiction - Virginia Woolf Quotes

A woman must have money and room of her own if she is to write fiction

It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality - Virginia Woolf Quotes

It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality

What I like, or one of the things I like, about motoring is the sense it gives one of lighting accidentally, like a voyager who touches another planet with the tip of his toe, upon scenes which would have gone on, have always gone on, will go on, unrecorded, save for this chance glimpse. Then it seems to me I am allowed to see the heart of the world uncovered for a moment. - Virginia Woolf Quotes

What I like, or one of the things I like, about motoring is the sense it gives one of lighting accidentally, like a voyager who touches another planet with the tip of his toe, upon scenes which would have gone on, have always gone on, will go on, unrecorded, save for this chance glimpse. Then it seems to me I am allowed to see the heart of the world uncovered for a moment.

When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly. - Virginia Woolf Quotes

When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.

British Author Meaning

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

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

British Author Poems

Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe. - Virginia Woolf Quotes

Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.

British Author Charity

It will be all over this day week - comfort - discomfort; and the zest and rush that no engagements, hours, habits give. Then we shall take them up again with more than the zest of traveling. - Virginia Woolf Quotes

It will be all over this day week - comfort - discomfort; and the zest and rush that no engagements, hours, habits give. Then we shall take them up again with more than the zest of traveling.

Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art. - Virginia Woolf Quotes

Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.

Art British Author

If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, I've no doubt; but already should be faded, fatalistic and aged - Virginia Woolf Quotes

If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, I've no doubt; but already should be faded, fatalistic and aged

What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once - Virginia Woolf Quotes

What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once

Henry James seems most entirely in his element, doing that is to say what everything favors his doing, when it is a question of recollection. The mellow light which swims over the past, the beauty which suffuses even the commonest little figures of that - Virginia Woolf Quotes

Henry James seems most entirely in his element, doing that is to say what everything favors his doing, when it is a question of recollection. The mellow light which swims over the past, the beauty which suffuses even the commonest little figures of that

Elements Literature

If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or ''our'' country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits which I have not shared and probably will not share. - Virginia Woolf Quotes

If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or ''our'' country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits which I have not shared and probably will not share.

I' is only a convenient term for somebody who has no real being. - Virginia Woolf Quotes

I' is only a convenient term for somebody who has no real being.

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man, at twice its natural size - Virginia Woolf Quotes

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man, at twice its natural size

Magic

Life for both sexes is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. More than anything... it calls for confidence in oneself...And how can we generate this imponderable quality most quickly? By thinking that other people are inferior to oneself. - Virginia Woolf Quotes

Life for both sexes is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. More than anything... it calls for confidence in oneself...And how can we generate this imponderable quality most quickly? By thinking that other people are inferior to oneself.

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